{"id":102550,"date":"2021-06-27T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102550"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:53:14","slug":"the-waters-cold-when-daddys-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-waters-cold-when-daddys-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The water\u2019s cold when Daddy\u2019s gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The water\u2019s cold when Daddy\u2019s gone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I pull the tap straight up, expecting heat<\/p>\n<p>to cover my hands. But the cold rushes<\/p>\n<p>from the faucet and freezes my fingers<\/p>\n<p>as I try to swirl the germs away. Daddy<\/p>\n<p>wasn\u2019t here to turn the knob and leave<\/p>\n<p>it where he left it: ready to burn<\/p>\n<p>and tingle small hands that won\u2019t stop moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water\u2019s cold when Daddy\u2019s gone &nbsp; I pull the tap straight up, expecting heat to cover my hands. But the cold rushes from the faucet and freezes my fingers as I try to swirl the germs away. Daddy wasn\u2019t here to turn the knob&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102550","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102605,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102550\/revisions\/102605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}