{"id":6759,"date":"2020-07-04T10:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2020-07-04T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:31:51","slug":"b-s-gives-you-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/b-s-gives-you-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"B.S. Gives You Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was 3 or 4, I reached behind my back and felt a lump on either side that I was sure were wings sprouting. &#8220;Mommy, Mommy,&#8221; I exclaimed, &#8220;I&#8217;m growing wings!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mother saw what I was doing and said, &#8220;No, honey. Those are just your shoulder blades. They are bones in your back and when you reach behind, they pop up a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;NO!!!,&#8221; I shouted defiantly, and ran back and forth across the front yard trying to fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years later, I have come to believe that it as always been the well-intentioned <em>disbelief <\/em>of others that has robbed me of my dreams. And I have determined I must believe even more strongly if I am to make such things real before the window of opportunity is lost and the magic has run out of my world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 3 or 4, I reached behind my back and felt a lump on either side that I was sure were wings sprouting. &#8220;Mommy, Mommy,&#8221; I exclaimed, &#8220;I&#8217;m growing wings!&#8221; My mother saw what I was doing and said, &#8220;No, honey. Those are just your shoulder blades. They are bones in your back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippets-bits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-1L1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}