{"id":137624,"date":"2023-09-02T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137624"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:35:15","slug":"picture-of-their-first-day-of-preschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/picture-of-their-first-day-of-preschool\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of Their First Day of Preschool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blonde ringlets frame her heart-shaped face,<\/p>\n<p>shining hair pulled off her face with a pink bow.<\/p>\n<p>Her bright blue eyes are filled with laughter,<\/p>\n<p>big smile swelling her cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His blonde hair cut close with a fringe<\/p>\n<p>above his proud blue eyes. He is bent slightly<\/p>\n<p>at the knee to reach her little shoulders and<\/p>\n<p>wrap his arm around them in loving protection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The preschoolers barely outsize their backpacks<\/p>\n<p>on this first day of school. They are overjoyed<\/p>\n<p>to carry their awkward bundles filled with<\/p>\n<p>new school supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are ready to learn, to play, to make<\/p>\n<p>new friends. They are ready to take their first<\/p>\n<p>steps out of babyhood, their first steps<\/p>\n<p>out into the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Letting them go tugs at my heartstrings<\/p>\n<p>like an instrument out of tune. I want to freeze<\/p>\n<p>this moment, this image in time,<\/p>\n<p>forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blonde ringlets frame her heart-shaped face, shining hair pulled off her face with a pink bow. Her bright blue eyes are filled with laughter, big smile swelling her cheeks. &nbsp; His blonde hair cut close with a fringe above his proud blue eyes. He is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137624","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\/5294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137634,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137624\/revisions\/137634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}