{"id":139048,"date":"2023-09-03T00:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139048"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:16:05","slug":"13-sweet-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13-sweet-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"#13: Sweet Bean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#13: Sweet Bean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, sweet bean<\/p>\n<p>You smell so sweet<\/p>\n<p>Every goo-goo, every ga-ga<\/p>\n<p>Brings a smile to my face<\/p>\n<p>Every moment we embrace<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded to be grateful<\/p>\n<p>You see, sweet bean<\/p>\n<p>I was never expected to be a mother<\/p>\n<p>The doctors told me so<\/p>\n<p>Yet, here you both are<\/p>\n<p>So every snuggle, every cuddle<\/p>\n<p>Melts the frustration of motherhood<\/p>\n<p>It erases the societal pressure of perfection<\/p>\n<p>And reminds me I\u2019m enough<\/p>\n<p>Holding you in my arms<\/p>\n<p>Swaying side to side<\/p>\n<p>Or rocking back and forth<\/p>\n<p>Centres me in the moment<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sweet bean<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so lucky to be your mama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#13: Sweet Bean Oh, sweet bean You smell so sweet Every goo-goo, every ga-ga Brings a smile to my face Every moment we embrace I am reminded to be grateful You see, sweet bean I was never expected to be a mother The doctors told&#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-139048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139048","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=139048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139145,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139048\/revisions\/139145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}