{"id":38073,"date":"2017-08-05T19:46:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38073"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:47:24","slug":"hour-11-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-11-11\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 11: motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend tells me that she fears<br \/>\nbringing a child into this world<br \/>\nbecause of what the parasite might do<br \/>\nto her body.<\/p>\n<p>Another laments<br \/>\nthe financial burden it would entail<br \/>\nto invest into his offspring,<br \/>\nto feed,<br \/>\nclothe,<br \/>\neducate.<\/p>\n<p>But me\u2014<br \/>\nI fear that I cannot live up<br \/>\nto the responsibility of guiding a human life<br \/>\nthrough to adulthood.<br \/>\nIf I learned anything from my mother, it is that<br \/>\nmotherhood comes with great sacrifices. <\/p>\n<p>Will I be able to sell them the world<br \/>\nthe way my mother sold dilapidated homes<br \/>\nto men with deep pockets,<br \/>\nguiding their eyes away from scratched hardwood<br \/>\nto the seventh layer of new paint<br \/>\nin order to put grains in my stomach?<br \/>\nEven if I do as she did,<br \/>\nand use my own body to shield my children from the world,<br \/>\nwill they be recovering from their childhood<br \/>\nin this monstrous world?<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by &#8220;I AM ACCUSED OF TENDING TO THE PAST&#8221; by Lucille Clifton and &#8220;Good Bones&#8221; by Maggie Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend tells me that she fears bringing a child into this world because of what the parasite might do to her body. Another laments the financial burden it would entail to invest into his offspring, to feed, clothe, educate. But me\u2014 I fear that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38073","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\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38117,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38073\/revisions\/38117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}