{"id":138270,"date":"2023-09-02T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138270"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:49:42","slug":"3-motherhood-is-just-another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/3-motherhood-is-just-another-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#3: Motherhood is just another day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#3: Motherhood is just another day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah!<\/p>\n<p>A shriek from the other room. What the hell was that?<\/p>\n<p>I run in, soapy spatula still in hand from doing the dishes. I scan the room quickly for where my kids are this minute.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, of course. My child is testing the limits of physics!<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing? Are you okay?<\/p>\n<p>They giggle and laugh. Likely thinking I\u2019m insane.<\/p>\n<p>Why is mom so worried? Doesn\u2019t she know we just like to play?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the innocence of children. All fun and games. Their injuries only hurting for a second until they\u2019re back up and onto the next thing.<\/p>\n<p>I shake my head and go back to the dishes. Listening to them laughing while I carry on with getting through the next few minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#3: Motherhood is just another day Ah! A shriek from the other room. What the hell was that? I run in, soapy spatula still in hand from doing the dishes. I scan the room quickly for where my kids are this minute. Oh, of course&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138270","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\/3768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138366,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138270\/revisions\/138366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}