{"id":34236,"date":"2017-08-05T13:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34236"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:50:11","slug":"poem-4-grandmothers-wallpaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-4-grandmothers-wallpaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 4 &#8211; Grandmother&#8217;s Wallpaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grandmother\u2019s wallpaper has seen many things,<br \/>\nMarriages, babies, family gatherings,<br \/>\nTears of a mother, tears of a child,<br \/>\nA reassuring hand and chastise so mild.<\/p>\n<p>Small sticky fingers clutching apron strings,<br \/>\nGrandmother\u2019s wallpaper has seen many things,<br \/>\nJelly and cream, egg custard and tea,<br \/>\nSello-taped packages under an antique Christmas Tree.<\/p>\n<p>Child to Adult the grandchildren evolve,<br \/>\nBut a fondness for Grandma will never dissolve,<br \/>\nGrandmother\u2019s wallpaper has seen many things,<br \/>\nA penchant to love is all that she brings.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years on under hospital light,<br \/>\nThe walls are flat and bland, barely a blemish in sight,<br \/>\nBack at the flat we pack up her things,<br \/>\nGrandmother\u2019s wallpaper has seen many things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandmother\u2019s wallpaper has seen many things, Marriages, babies, family gatherings, Tears of a mother, tears of a child, A reassuring hand and chastise so mild. Small sticky fingers clutching apron strings, Grandmother\u2019s wallpaper has seen many things, Jelly and cream, egg custard and tea, Sello-taped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236","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\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34239,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions\/34239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}