{"id":111543,"date":"2022-06-25T14:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111543"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:51:58","slug":"thanks-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/thanks-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t think so much Susan<br \/>\nTurn the news off,<br \/>\nturn the entire TV off.<br \/>\nStop distracting yourself with<br \/>\nthings that don\u2019t matter.<br \/>\nGo outside,<br \/>\nsit in the grass and<br \/>\ntake pictures of your birds.<br \/>\nGet off the couch,<br \/>\ngo, smell the scents of the world.<br \/>\nHave some fun,<br \/>\nit\u2019s okay to have fun,<br \/>\nit\u2019s okay to be alone,<br \/>\nit\u2019s all okay in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t think so much Susan<br \/>\nThe past won\u2019t change,<br \/>\nthe future is unknown.<br \/>\nWhat are you doing now,<br \/>\nwhat do you have now?<br \/>\nWant what you have before<br \/>\nwanting more.<br \/>\nWhat do you read, listen to,<br \/>\nwatch?<br \/>\nWhat do you take in, focus on,<br \/>\nobsess over?<br \/>\nRelax, it\u2019s all okay even when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t think so much Susan<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about announcing<br \/>\nyou\u2019re living your best life.<br \/>\nJust live your life<br \/>\nwhatever it may be,<br \/>\nwhoever it may be with.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t have to prove you\u2019re<br \/>\nalways on top of it all,<br \/>\ndoing your best,<br \/>\ndoing better than you are.<br \/>\nProof is not what life is about.<\/p>\n<p>Stop thinking so much Susan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t think so much Susan Turn the news off, turn the entire TV off. Stop distracting yourself with things that don\u2019t matter. Go outside, sit in the grass and take pictures of your birds. Get off the couch, go, smell the scents of the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111543","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\/1578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111557,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111543\/revisions\/111557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}