{"id":259,"date":"2010-03-06T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=259"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:53:40","slug":"my-shadow-by-robert-louis-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/my-shadow-by-robert-louis-stevenson\/","title":{"rendered":"My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)<\/p>\n

My Shadow<\/p>\n

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
\nAnd what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
\nHe is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
\nAnd I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.<\/p>\n

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow–
\nNot at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
\nFor he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
\nAnd he sometimes goes so little that there’s none of him at all.<\/p>\n

He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play,
\nAnd can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
\nHe stays so close behind me, he’s a coward you can see;
\nI’d think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!<\/p>\n

One morning, very early, before the Sun was up,
\nI rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
\nBut my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
\nHad stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) My Shadow I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-for-kids"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}