{"id":387,"date":"2026-05-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:33:59","slug":"gifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/gifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was eight years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They told me I was special<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was different<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Gifted&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does that even mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I smarter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I brighter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what does it all mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t have to try at school<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just breeze right by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve already proved I&#8217;m intellegent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I need to do this pointless busywork?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But oh no<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I get to something<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I can&#8217;t figure out in my head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In less than thirty seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because this kid is about to crash out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you mean I can&#8217;t do it immediately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I must be stupid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were wrong&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t do anything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just can&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was eight years old They told me I was special I was different I was &#8220;Gifted&#8221; What does that even mean? Am I smarter? Am I brighter? That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying I think But what does it all mean? I don&#8217;t have to try at school I just breeze right by I&#8217;ve already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[110],"tags":[36,111],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-carolyn","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}