{"id":644,"date":"2018-07-09T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T04:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=644"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:56:00","slug":"im-the-first","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=644","title":{"rendered":"I’m The First!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning
\nI got up first!<\/p>\n

I was up before my mum.
\nShe looked so funny
\nwith her mouth open and her hair sticking up.<\/p>\n

I got up before Dad.
\nHe was stretched out under the green quilt
\nlike a crocodile.<\/p>\n

I was awake before Ellie
\nsleeping silently on her tummy
\nand Raffles, curled up at the end of her bed.<\/p>\n

I was even up
\nbefore the sun!<\/p>\n

I got dressed
\nin my school uniform
\nwithout being asked<\/p>\n

poured a bowl of cornflakes
\nall by myself
\nand sat down in the dark kitchen to eat<\/p>\n

when Dad came in, rubbing his eyes,
\nand growled, \u201cIt\u2019s 3 o\u2019clock in the morning!
\nGo back to bed!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2018<\/p>\n

This poem was first\u00a0published in Countdown, <\/i>Issue No. 4, The School Magazine, May 2018, and then was published again in my poetry book,\u00a0To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?\u00a0<\/em>(Glimmer Press, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This morning I got up first! I was up before my mum. She looked so funny with her mouth open and her hair sticking up. I got up before Dad. He was stretched out under the green quilt like a crocodile. I was awake before Ellie sleeping silently on her tummy and Raffles, curled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":479,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-644","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/644\/revisions\/1430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}