{"id":483,"date":"2025-12-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/?p=483"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:37:42","slug":"a-prayer-for-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/2025\/12\/20\/a-prayer-for-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">O Artemis!<br>Goddess of women\u2019s sport!<br>Guard and guide me on my bicycle.<br>Let me track the asphalt<br>for an unobstructed path,<br>let the cars see and avoid me<br>(and, ideally, not yell \u201cDorothy!\u201d).<br><br>True, I was a dork in school<br>where you most flex your influence\u2014<br>four-eyes at best, tripping at soccer<br>over the foot of the flute player,<br>who also tripped, and we lay laughing<br>as the guys who cared about winning<br>angrily took the ball and dribbled<br>down the field away from us.<br><br>But even then, I could ride<br>my crappy one-speed right up the hill<br>on Seventeenth Street\u2014the same one<br>I would fly down every morning,<br>no hands!<br>\t\t(My mother would have died<br>if she had seen me.) (Or, maybe, killed me.)<br><br>O Artemis!<br>Eternal maiden who releases<br>daughters from their mothers\u2019 fears!<br>Hold me safe from tires to helmet<br>as I lean into this turn.<br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Artemis!Goddess of women\u2019s sport!Guard and guide me on my bicycle.Let me track the asphaltfor an unobstructed path,let the cars see and avoid me(and, ideally, not yell \u201cDorothy!\u201d).True, I was a dork in schoolwhere you most flex your influence\u2014four-eyes at best, tripping at soccerover the foot of the flute player,who also tripped, and we lay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}