{"id":143817,"date":"2023-09-03T08:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143817"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:44:39","slug":"to-the-nurse-who-held-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/to-the-nurse-who-held-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Nurse Who Held my Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nurse who held my son all day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when he was going to leave the hospital<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wonder if she was thinking<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">about me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or the adoptive parents who would be arriving<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that day to take my son home with them<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wonder if she held him all day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because she knew this day would be<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the hardest on me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe she did it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">so he would be calm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and make it easier on us<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nurse who held my son all day when he was going to leave the hospital I wonder if she was thinking about me or the adoptive parents who would be arriving that day to take my son home with them &nbsp; I wonder if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[6452,510,6451,6453],"class_list":["post-143817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-adoptive-parents","tag-birthmother","tag-nurse","tag-placing-a-child-for-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143817","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143830,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143817\/revisions\/143830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}