{"id":15,"date":"2007-04-27T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-01-28T07:45:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T14:45:36","slug":"insidious-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/2007\/insidious-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Insidious Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insidious Praise<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s dying inside<br \/>\nNot sure how to cope<br \/>\nThe fear bubbles up and over<\/p>\n<p>Will I get through today<br \/>\nWhy am I here<br \/>\nWhat is wrong with me<\/p>\n<p>The anxiety keeps her docile<br \/>\nThe adrenaline, awake<br \/>\nNo-one sees the pain<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe seems fine\u201d, they say<br \/>\nAnd in little bits, she is<br \/>\nBut there is a cost<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust try your best!\u201d<br \/>\nWell, what if you already are<br \/>\nAnd still it\u2019s not enough<\/p>\n<p>She gives it all she\u2019s got<br \/>\nJust to get through<br \/>\nThose around her beam and smile<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t really see her<br \/>\nAnd of course they never ask<br \/>\nThey see what they want to see<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re doing so much better!\u201d<br \/>\nThe words make her cringe<br \/>\nAnd pull further inside<\/p>\n<p>Praise cuts like a knife,<br \/>\nWhen it\u2019s counter to what\u2019s real<br \/>\nWidens the isolation gap<\/p>\n<p>Would concern be so hard?<br \/>\nBut they have their own fears<br \/>\nSo everyone keeps plugging on<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Monday again<br \/>\nWhere did the weekend go?<br \/>\nShe\u2019ll do her best, it\u2019s what she does<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2007, Lisa Stroyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insidious Praise She\u2019s dying inside Not sure how to cope The fear bubbles up and over Will I get through today Why am I here What is wrong with me The anxiety keeps her docile The adrenaline, awake No-one sees the pain \u201cShe seems fine\u201d, they say And in little bits, she is But there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-special-needs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}