{"id":100739,"date":"2021-06-27T03:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100739"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:28:54","slug":"my-fathers-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/my-fathers-keeper\/","title":{"rendered":"My father\u2019s keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to live<br \/>\nto see their parents<br \/>\nbecome children, dependent,<br \/>\nvulnerable, leaning on canes<br \/>\nand walkers and others. <\/p>\n<p>The mourning. The shift<br \/>\nfrom child to care giver.<br \/>\nThe exhaustion. <\/p>\n<p>No one wants to see it, to live<br \/>\nit. Roles reversed. <\/p>\n<p>Guess I should have<br \/>\nchecked out when<br \/>\nI was six. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to live to see their parents become children, dependent, vulnerable, leaning on canes and walkers and others. The mourning. The shift from child to care giver. The exhaustion. No one wants to see it, to live it. Roles reversed. Guess I should&#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-100739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100739","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=100739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100744,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100739\/revisions\/100744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}