{"id":37450,"date":"2017-08-05T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37450"},"modified":"2017-08-12T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T19:55:49","slug":"bella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/bella\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pink of her cheeks,<br \/>\nThe softness of new baby skin,<br \/>\nRosebud-colored lips framing her mouth,<br \/>\nDeep chocolate-black hair, smooth and fine,<br \/>\nTiny fingers wrapped around mine,<br \/>\nBlue-black eyes open, not seeing,<br \/>\nEars hear my voice, head turns my way,<br \/>\nShe\u2019s pulling my finger, her mouth to taste;<br \/>\nVoid of the nectar her mom holds for her.<br \/>\nRoom full of family waiting, their turn to hold,<br \/>\nThis precious child is one of their fold<br \/>\nOnly days old, her future is planned<br \/>\nNursery at home waits for her presence with gifts<br \/>\nCrib filled with white teddy and blankets of pink ruffles<br \/>\nBella, she is and Bella\u2019s her name<br \/>\nThis family\u2019s world no longer the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 Kathleen J Kidder<br \/>\n8\/5\/2017 Hour Ten &#8211; Half Marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pink of her cheeks, The softness of new baby skin, Rosebud-colored lips framing her mouth, Deep chocolate-black hair, smooth and fine, Tiny fingers wrapped around mine, Blue-black eyes open, not seeing, Ears hear my voice, head turns my way, She\u2019s pulling my finger, her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450","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\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44290,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions\/44290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}