{"id":34619,"date":"2017-08-05T14:17:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34619"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:17:40","slug":"madre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/madre\/","title":{"rendered":"Madre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my son calls me Madre<br \/>\nnot because I speak Spanish<br \/>\nor he speaks Spanish<br \/>\nbut to distinguish himself from his sisters<br \/>\nand make our relationship unique<br \/>\nwith a word<br \/>\na name:<br \/>\nMadre<\/p>\n<p>to name is sacred<br \/>\nholy<br \/>\ngives substance and connection<br \/>\nto the one who names<br \/>\nthe one who first breathes life<br \/>\ninto another, through naming<br \/>\ncreating a tether, a ground tie<br \/>\nlonger than an umbilical cord<br \/>\nwith roots and wings<\/p>\n<p>I never named another<br \/>\nwho did not first find my body to be home<br \/>\nbut I named a son<br \/>\nwho is bold enough<br \/>\nto name me<br \/>\nto name us<br \/>\nnot because he&#8217;s a Momma&#8217;s boy<br \/>\nbut because<br \/>\nhe knows Madre when he\u00a0sees her<br \/>\na forever home<br \/>\nwith roots and wings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my son calls me Madre not because I speak Spanish or he speaks Spanish but to distinguish himself from his sisters and make our relationship unique with a word a name: Madre to name is sacred holy gives substance and connection to the one who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34771,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619\/revisions\/34771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}