{"id":96513,"date":"2019-07-25T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/?p=96513"},"modified":"2019-07-25T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:06:50","slug":"self-esteem-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/96513-self-esteem-giants.html","title":{"rendered":"Self-Esteem for Giants [Poem]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjS_SeuYayA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><noframes><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qjS_SeuYayA\">*|YOUTUBE:[$vid=qjS_SeuYayA]|*<br \/>Click to watch<\/a>\n<\/noframes><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-Esteem for Giants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I think I am just the way<br \/>\ndishes get transported up and down stairs&#8211;<br \/>\nlike, having no legs, they invented me<br \/>\nto go on these excursions. It makes me<br \/>\nfeel useful. Sometimes I think about how<br \/>\nI make cutlery both dirty and clean,<br \/>\nshuffling it from dishwasher to drawer<br \/>\nto dining table, and then back again.<br \/>\nSometimes, I lick a spoon for effect.<br \/>\nPerhaps each day for them is a season,<br \/>\nthe soapy rains, wintering in drawers.<br \/>\nSometimes, when I break a dish, I want<br \/>\nto cry, but it&#8217;s more from shock than loss,<br \/>\nmore about me and my failure as a cup holder<br \/>\nthan about the cup and its untimely demise.<br \/>\nEach day for them is an adventure, soaring<br \/>\nin the questionably steady hands of a giant,<br \/>\nclattering into the sink with undue panache.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to feel like a giant. I was told<br \/>\n(probably by myself) that one day I would.<br \/>\nYet here I am, savouring the chime of forks<br \/>\nput back in their places. I wonder what they<br \/>\nsay about me, passing reviews of my work<br \/>\nthrough the drawers and shelves they sleep in.<br \/>\nGoodnight, dishes and cutlery. Dream well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think I am just the way<br \/>\ndishes get transported up and down stairs&#8211;<br \/>\nlike, having no legs, they invented me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1268,5,9,1275,14],"tags":[1274,1278,1280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}