{"id":324483,"date":"2020-06-09T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=324483"},"modified":"2020-06-09T06:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:02:46","slug":"untitled-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/untitled-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jae Hoon Son is a 9th grader at Marianas High School. Son\u2019s teacher is Ms. Leila Staffler.<\/p>\n<p>At age 5,  the first year of my kindergarten, while my classmates were having birthday parties,<br \/>\nI stayed at home doing homeschool.<\/p>\n<p>At age 6, while my classmates were playing hopscotch,<br \/>\nI was learning piano.<\/p>\n<p>At age 7, while my classmates were sneaking out to avoid brushing teeth,<br \/>\nI was the only one left in the restroom.<\/p>\n<p>At age 8, the first year of my elementary, while the girls were braiding each other\u2019s hair,<br \/>\nI was the only one visiting the library at lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>At age of 9, while the girls were taking selfies,<br \/>\nI was the only one sitting next to them doing homework.<\/p>\n<p>At age of 10, while the girls\u2019 attention was in makeup kits,<br \/>\nMy attention was all in the textbook and report cards.<\/p>\n<p>At age of 11, while the boys were all hanging out at internet cafe eating kimchi fried rice,<br \/>\nI was the only one buying cup noodles and bread at the convenience store.<\/p>\n<p>At age 12, while boys were searching for their valentines,<br \/>\nI was searching for a part time job that I can do.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 13, the last year of my elementary, while my classmates are crying and passing out flowers,<br \/>\nI was just standing not to be seen by anybody.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 14, the first year of junior high, while my classmates introduced me cigarette,<br \/>\nI got bitten up by declining them.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 15, while my classmates wrote letters to each other during class,<br \/>\nI was the delivery and the one to be punished by the teacher.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 16, the last year of my junior high, while they are all coupled up in pairs kissing,<br \/>\nI was depressed with my diploma.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 17, the first year of my high school, while the teachers have bias of students,<br \/>\nI was none of it for them.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 18, while my classmates were choosing dresses and planning for their prom party next year,<br \/>\nI was closing my room door and said do not enter.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 19, the last year of high school, while everyone else was enjoying prom party,<br \/>\nI was crying at the corner in the restroom with a ripped dress.<\/p>\n<p>No one noticed that I was bullied.<\/p>\n<p>No one should care about others&#8217; lives and respect them.<\/p>\n<p>No way. They should start paying attention to situations happening near them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jae Hoon Son is a 9th grader at Marianas High School. Son\u2019s teacher is Ms&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":297222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youngstyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}