{"id":140309,"date":"2023-09-03T03:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140309"},"modified":"2023-09-03T03:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:05:02","slug":"baby-talk-hour-15-prompt-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/baby-talk-hour-15-prompt-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby talk &#8211; Hour 15, Prompt 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s singing again<\/p>\n<p>why can\u2019t she understand me?<\/p>\n<p>I know the others need her, three<\/p>\n<p>but more so do I<\/p>\n<p>so I get louder, why?<\/p>\n<p>But need is in order<\/p>\n<p>please pick me up<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m more important<\/p>\n<p>ah, I like that song<\/p>\n<p>calm down, not for long<\/p>\n<p>and that elephant sound<\/p>\n<p>my screams, they will drown<\/p>\n<p>goodie, my turn<\/p>\n<p>a bottle, I earn<\/p>\n<p>and her smiling face<\/p>\n<p>my yells are erased<\/p>\n<p>a cuddle or two<\/p>\n<p>a whispered coo<\/p>\n<p>rocking, swaying<\/p>\n<p>I forget why<\/p>\n<p>I cried.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, 9-3-2023<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s singing again why can\u2019t she understand me? I know the others need her, three but more so do I so I get louder, why? But need is in order please pick me up I\u2019m more important ah, I like that song calm down, not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[6315],"class_list":["post-140309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-babytalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140309","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140475,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140309\/revisions\/140475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}