{"id":20846,"date":"2016-08-13T14:18:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20846"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:18:40","slug":"mother-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/mother-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The prayers are sound,<\/p>\n<p>everyone whispers the word of god.<\/p>\n<p>Whispers fade<\/p>\n<p>short stares take the place,<\/p>\n<p>Gasping for air,<\/p>\n<p>no one dares to take her breath<\/p>\n<p>Silence is sound and all around eyes witnessed<\/p>\n<p>Eyes glistened,<\/p>\n<p>Still.<\/p>\n<p>Daughters and daughters and daughters<\/p>\n<p>with more to come<\/p>\n<p>Surround the mother #1.<\/p>\n<p>The prayer we said and peaceful she left<\/p>\n<p>A breath we could take for our hearts sake.<\/p>\n<p>Sobbing- now is mourning<\/p>\n<p>Being without her is now torturing<\/p>\n<p>I just lost my great-grandmother<\/p>\n<p>the look on her face makes me shudder<\/p>\n<p>mothers love is like no other<\/p>\n<p>Here alone feeling withdrawn<\/p>\n<p>Now all of my mothers\u2019 are gone.<\/p>\n<p>by Khalifah Luciano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The prayers are sound, everyone whispers the word of god. Whispers fade short stares take the place, Gasping for air, no one dares to take her breath Silence is sound and all around eyes witnessed Eyes glistened, Still. Daughters and daughters and daughters with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":824,"featured_media":20545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,12],"tags":[1425,680,180,51,1525,1526,511,15,355,1157,390],"class_list":["post-20846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","tag-grandmothers","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-alone","tag-death","tag-great-grandmother","tag-last-breath","tag-mother","tag-poem","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetrymarathon2016","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846","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\/824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21567,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846\/revisions\/21567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}