{"id":23705,"date":"2016-08-13T19:21:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23705"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:23:46","slug":"the-lighthouse-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-lighthouse-keeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse Keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They show up angry, hungry, afraid<br \/>\nMissing their homes, missing their beds, needing their moms<br \/>\nSome are defensive, some are shy, some tell tall tales<br \/>\nSome even invent dangerous games, and revel in the chaos<\/p>\n<p>Yet you smile, you listen, you comfort<br \/>\nYour touch calms, your voice reassures, your eyes pay attention<br \/>\nThe day twists and turns, yet you steer the ship through rough seas<br \/>\nwith the expertise of a master mariner<\/p>\n<p>Adventures in science, history, art,<br \/>\nMath, music, language and beyond, are laid at their feet<br \/>\nGolden keys to open locked doors and secret passwords to hidden portals<br \/>\nUnveiled and deciphered<\/p>\n<p>Missing books, broken pencils, empty cabinets<br \/>\nReplenished and filled with portions of your meager paychecks<br \/>\nThose designer shoes and exotic cruises to foreign lands<br \/>\nwill have to wait<\/p>\n<p>While you spread magic<br \/>\nShare wisdom<br \/>\nand create bright futures.<\/p>\n<p><em>*dedicated to my mom &#8211; Sarwat Riaz &#8211; artist, Montessori Teacher, and an extraordinary source of strength and inspiration<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They show up angry, hungry, afraid Missing their homes, missing their beds, needing their moms Some are defensive, some are shy, some tell tall tales Some even invent dangerous games, and revel in the chaos Yet you smile, you listen, you comfort Your touch calms,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-23705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-ten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30063,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions\/30063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}