{"id":142003,"date":"2023-09-03T06:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142003"},"modified":"2023-09-03T06:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:17:56","slug":"hour-22-poem-28-the-baby-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-22-poem-28-the-baby-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 22, Poem 28: The Baby Mat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(I tried writing about a baby mat but it didn&#8217;t quite land. Will be revising it when I am more awake.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I saw the first steps of the baby<br \/>\nAlso when he fell and cried<br \/>\nThen got up again to try take his own steps.<br \/>\nI felt the tiny baby teeth<br \/>\nTrying to bite my edges off<br \/>\nJust two of them but really sharp<br \/>\nI heard the giggles and bumbling words<br \/>\nThat made no sense but still told<br \/>\nEverything that ought to be heard.<br \/>\nAnd now here I am in a corner<br \/>\nOf a room full of toys and books<br \/>\nDusty yet still there for whenever<br \/>\nI am needed for the support<br \/>\nand safety and as a teether<br \/>\nAnd to catch a baby taking her first steps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I tried writing about a baby mat but it didn&#8217;t quite land. Will be revising it when I am more awake.) I saw the first steps of the baby Also when he fell and cried Then got up again to try take his own steps&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142003","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142235,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142003\/revisions\/142235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}