{"id":3139,"date":"2020-05-14T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:17:19","slug":"winner-antonia-johnson-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Winner: Antonia Johnson, <h6>&#8216;Once&#8217;<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia Johnson&#8217;s poem &#8216;Once&#8217; is the recipient of a 2020 <a title=\"Content related to Newcastle Poetry Competition\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?tag=newcastle-poetry-competition\">Newcastle Poetry Competition<\/a>\u00a0Young People&#8217;s Prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once I carried a girl,<\/p>\n<p>sitting sadly on my shoulders,<\/p>\n<p>a trapped lamb crying for the sheep she\u2019d lost.<\/p>\n<p>Every night our bodies touched;<\/p>\n<p>we flickered like candles on the lake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once I carried a girl,<\/p>\n<p>lying softly in my arms,<\/p>\n<p>starved by pestilence and sickness of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Every morning I held her hand,<\/p>\n<p>making sure the travellers saw our flight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once I carried a girl,<\/p>\n<p>who held tightly to my back;<\/p>\n<p>I was stricken with grief with the load I had to bear.<\/p>\n<p>Every mealtime we talked,<\/p>\n<p>spilling every secret.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m carried by a girl<\/p>\n<p>who lifts me up to heaven,<\/p>\n<p>the shoulders that I always craved<\/p>\n<p>but never knew I had.<\/p>\n<p>She pulls me through.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Antonia Johnson<\/em><\/strong><strong>, 16<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia Johnson&#8217;s poem &#8216;Once&#8217; is the recipient of a 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition\u00a0Young People&#8217;s Prize. &nbsp; Once \u00a0 Once I carried a girl, sitting sadly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[675,664,604,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}