{"id":11,"date":"2012-06-17T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T21:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2022-03-01T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:32:35","slug":"little-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Little One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Little-One.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-656\" title=\"Little One\" src=\"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Little-One-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Little-One-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Little-One-1024x619.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Inspiration: <\/em>I was reading a news article about a child abuse case going to trial. It talked about having to put a child on the stand. I read the allegations and the visions of a child having to take the stand haunted me for a few hours. Finally, a line rolled through my brain like a freight train. Note: Originally posted in 2008. Reposted to honor witnesses in June 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A scream caught into a smile on his little face<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bad men helping evil men continue to steal his innocence away<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That is how he felt<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That is what his heart told him&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Play poem below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/little-one-blog.mp3\">Little-One<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_twitter' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis\r<\/span>' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring witnesses in Jerry Sandusky trial. <a href=\"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_twitter' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis\r<\/span>' st_title='Little One' st_url='https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/?p=11' displayText='share'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartofapoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}