{"id":5437,"date":"2015-09-07T17:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2015-09-07T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:21:27","slug":"the-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"The Ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"balerina\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/balerina.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/balerina-250x250.png\" alt=\"balerina\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/balerina-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/balerina-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The Ballerina<\/p>\n<p>The light kissed their faces<br \/>\nHeaven&#8217;s hue through which it shown<br \/>\nAn empty stage apart from her alone.<br \/>\nShe needs no music, and stutters a breath<br \/>\nHer once stable ankles surrender and creath.<br \/>\nThe silence is deafening<br \/>\nShe feels so alone<br \/>\nOn this worn old stage that she still calls her home.<br \/>\nHer dance is pure instinct,<br \/>\nand comes quickly with<br \/>\nTheir judgement nearly brings her down to her knees.<br \/>\nThough they still stare, calculating and cold<br \/>\nUpset that she doesn&#8217;t fit into their perfect mould.<br \/>\nThat smile, too big.<br \/>\nThose legs too long<br \/>\nEverything about her is perfectly wrong<br \/>\nShe tries to continue,<br \/>\nhold her chin up<br \/>\nBut the pressure is too much,<br \/>\nand she ceases to try.<br \/>\nHer dance is over,<br \/>\nshe takes her\u00a0 bow<br \/>\nHer confident front is over now<br \/>\nShe turns her back to her ghostly crowd,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll hold in her tears, she&#8217;s far too proud<br \/>\nWalking away is the hardest part,<br \/>\nBut no amount of applause can heal this broken heart.<\/p>\n<p>Celine Brielle<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5441,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}