{"id":12496,"date":"2015-06-14T01:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:08:30","slug":"for-liam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/for-liam\/","title":{"rendered":"For Liam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a precious thing to see<br \/>\na baby born \u2013<br \/>\n(An honour I hope you come to know)<\/p>\n<p>Better still when the baby is<br \/>\nyou; bursting forth<br \/>\nwith such courage and conviction<\/p>\n<p>blowing raspberries, and love, at me.<\/p>\n<p>I watched you splutter and spurt,<br \/>\nbreathe your first,<br \/>\nand step into your solidness &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>an ethereal earthling with stars still attached.<\/p>\n<p>And now I watch you grow;<br \/>\nthe massive mixing with the miniature<br \/>\nthe grand with the grounded\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I know I\u2019ve loved you forever.<\/p>\n<p>Botticelli saw you in his<br \/>\ndreams; and painted you<\/p>\n<p>five hundred years early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a precious thing to see a baby born \u2013 (An honour I hope you come to know) Better still when the baby is you; bursting forth with such courage and conviction blowing raspberries, and love, at me. I watched you splutter and spurt,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12505,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}