{"id":19592,"date":"2016-08-13T12:38:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19592"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:38:05","slug":"the-puzzle-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-puzzle-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puzzle Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I searched for the puzzle pieces<br \/>\nit took me seventy years<br \/>\nwanting to learn more about me<br \/>\nand why I had so many tears<br \/>\nHow did I get to be &#8220;this way&#8221;?<br \/>\nI always felt &#8220;crazy&#8221;, you see<br \/>\nWe may have looked fine on the outside<br \/>\nbut behind the scenes: misery<br \/>\nMy mom had a critical spirit<br \/>\nshe suffered with low self esteem<br \/>\nbut now I can understand it<br \/>\nI was never part of her &#8220;dream&#8221;<br \/>\nit all began in the thirties<br \/>\nwhen she started dating my dad<br \/>\ntwo &#8220;Christian&#8221; kids got in trouble<br \/>\nthe WORST they had ever had<br \/>\nthey buried their shame and guilt<br \/>\nbut from trouble they never were free<br \/>\nI have found that missing piece called &#8220;LOVE&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I know in the end they loved ME<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mom-dad-me-1940-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mom &amp; dad &amp; me 1940\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mom-dad-me-1940-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mom-dad-me-1940.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I searched for the puzzle pieces it took me seventy years wanting to learn more about me and why I had so many tears How did I get to be &#8220;this way&#8221;? I always felt &#8220;crazy&#8221;, you see We may have looked fine on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592","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\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19934,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions\/19934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}