My doctor is a bore<\/p>\n
Frets like a mother hen<\/p>\n
The fuss?<\/p>\n
My weight<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Who will deny me those late night raids in the kitchen<\/p>\n
while the house slept?<\/p>\n
those tippy-toe moments as I hear a door swing-<\/p>\n
pause<\/p>\n
silence<\/p>\n
Oh, dad, I just came for water. Feeling thirsty<\/em><\/p>\n Lights out.<\/p>\n Wait<\/p>\n The snoring of a boar<\/p>\n My door opens again and on tippy toes I go,<\/p>\n back to my love waiting for me<\/p>\n in the kitchen<\/p>\n in the fridge<\/p>\n in the orange bowl that mom put the caramel-coated sponge cake<\/p>\n Crunch crunch. Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hours later.<\/p>\n Morning<\/p>\n Has my sin been discovered?<\/p>\n The whole family is gathered around for breakfast<\/p>\n and there’s none for me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Where’s my breakfast, mom?<\/p>\n And like a well-rehearsed song, they echo back at me:<\/p>\n “You can’t have a second breakfast!”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My doctor is a bore Frets like a mother hen The fuss? My weight Who will deny me those late night raids in the kitchen while the house slept? those tippy-toe moments as I hear a door swing- pause silence Oh, dad, I just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121151","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\/4014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124122,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121151\/revisions\/124122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}