{"id":413,"date":"2010-11-13T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2010-11-13T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:43:18","slug":"poem-adopting-a-fourteen-year-old-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;Adopting a Fourteen-Year-Old in the 21st Century&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Adopting a Fourteen-Year-Old in the 21st Century<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teenage girls hate difference, and their mothers.<br \/>\nThey want concave bellies, current fashion,<br \/>\nand to fit in. That was my fear, and her other<br \/>\nmom&#8217;s: that she might despise our dyke passion,<br \/>\nour wheelchairs, Robin&#8217;s speech, my respirator,<br \/>\nor her own awkward tender girl body.<br \/>\nWould the pride we&#8217;d model vaccinate her<br \/>\nagainst surface standards? But she came ready.<br \/>\nShe wears mismatched florals, ignores trends,<br \/>\nhas bold prints and slogans in her wardrobes.<br \/>\nShe brags and introduces us to friends,<br \/>\noblivious to ableists and homophobes.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s nonconformist, even more than us.<br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s my moms!&#8221; she tells the kid beside her on the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2010 by Laura Hershey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adopting a Fourteen-Year-Old in the 21st Century Teenage girls hate difference, and their mothers. They want concave bellies, current fashion, and to fit in. That was my fear, and her other mom&#8217;s: that she might despise our dyke passion, our wheelchairs, Robin&#8217;s speech, my respirator, or her own awkward tender girl body. Would the pride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,48],"tags":[183,182,184,185,90,158],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-poems","tag-ableism","tag-adoption","tag-homophobia","tag-nonconformity","tag-poem","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}