{"id":100734,"date":"2021-06-27T03:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100734"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:29:33","slug":"on-understanding-my-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/on-understanding-my-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"On understanding my grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am alone every night<br \/>\nin my king sized bed, I keep books,<br \/>\nheating pad, water, by my wall. <\/p>\n<p>Oh. <\/p>\n<p>She makes so much more<br \/>\nsense now that I know<br \/>\nwhat it is to be too small<br \/>\nfor your bed alone. <\/p>\n<p>She kept her bible, newspapers,<br \/>\ncordless phone, by her wall. <\/p>\n<p>Mine on the left, hers on the right.<br \/>\nMirror, mirror, mirror. <\/p>\n<p>She slept alone for 28 years. <\/p>\n<p>That length of time is too<br \/>\nlarge for my brain, pushing<br \/>\nthe edges outward. Bending.<br \/>\nStretching. <\/p>\n<p>How? How did she do it?<br \/>\nNo dog or cat or plush<br \/>\ncompanion. Utterly alone. <\/p>\n<p>How did she sleep, unmoving,<br \/>\nso when she woke her bed<br \/>\nlooked undisturbed?<\/p>\n<p>What other secrets was she<br \/>\nhiding? Whisper them through<br \/>\nthe miles, across the years,<br \/>\nand into the heart of the child<br \/>\nyou loved best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am alone every night in my king sized bed, I keep books, heating pad, water, by my wall. Oh. She makes so much more sense now that I know what it is to be too small for your bed alone. She kept her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100736,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100734\/revisions\/100736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}