Excerpt-style blog post \u2014 written in Max’s voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s what happened:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I wrote a poem. Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I put the poem in her locker. Quietly. Heroically. Like some kind of romantic ninja with low blood sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then?<\/strong> By lunch, I was Public Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did I survive? Technically. \u2013 Max<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excerpt-style blog post \u2014 written in Max’s voice Here\u2019s what happened: I wrote a poem.Well \u2014 I wrote part of a poem. Then I panicked. Then I rewrote it twelve times. Then I may have taken some inspiration from a very good poem Raj wrote that wasn\u2019t about Natasha. (Mistakes were made. Eye colors were … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxpenningtonseries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Well \u2014 I<\/em> wrote part of a poem. Then I panicked. Then I rewrote it twelve times. Then I may have taken some inspiration from a very good poem Raj wrote that wasn\u2019t about Natasha. (Mistakes were made. Eye colors were changed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The poem escaped. Like a wild raccoon. It got passed around.
Read aloud. Analyzed. Mocked. Photocopied and put on the back of someone\u2019s geometry test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did I learn anything? Yes.
Mainly that glue sticks are not emotionally supportive. And that poems \u2014 like ferrets and secrets \u2014 should never be left unattended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n