{"id":133100,"date":"2023-09-02T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133100"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:19:42","slug":"babysitting-a-five-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/babysitting-a-five-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Babysitting a Five-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shove. <i>Get in there!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Snick<i>\u2014<\/i>the key turns.<\/p>\n<p>Your big brother Mickey\u2019s footsteps clack<\/p>\n<p>on the wood floor,<\/p>\n<p>thud on the rug.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s dark in here.<\/p>\n<p>Old rubber galoshes stink of feet,<\/p>\n<p>the coats of wet wool.<\/p>\n<p>They hang around, <\/p>\n<p>their hems on your neck and shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>You hope no mice come in here<\/p>\n<p>to scrabble and squeak<\/p>\n<p>like they do in the walls by your bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shove. Get in there! Snick\u2014the key turns. Your big brother Mickey\u2019s footsteps clack on the wood floor, thud on the rug. It\u2019s dark in here. Old rubber galoshes stink of feet, the coats of wet wool. They hang around, their hems on your neck and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133100","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\/5188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133378,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133100\/revisions\/133378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}