{"id":39952,"date":"2017-08-05T23:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39952"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:54:20","slug":"upon-the-birth-of-my-child-my-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/upon-the-birth-of-my-child-my-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Upon the birth of my child, my fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your face was blue when we first<br \/>\nmet, the first time I saw you<br \/>\noutside of pictures, outside of me.<br \/>\nYour whole small body shook<br \/>\nwith holy cries, hallowed shrieks.<br \/>\nThey subsided when your tiny cheek<br \/>\npressed over my heart, when we breathed<br \/>\ntogether. You turned pink later<br \/>\nthat night, hours passing since you<br \/>\nwere forced from my body, laughter<br \/>\npushing you to join me in this world.<br \/>\nYour movements staccato&#8211; too small<br \/>\nto be real, I dreamed you were<br \/>\nan animatronic infant, a sweet<br \/>\ndeception. Black hair fell past<br \/>\nyour ears, plastered to your neck<br \/>\nby amniotic fluid. But I&#8217;ll never<br \/>\nforget that blue, umbilical cord<br \/>\nwrapped around your neck, the first<br \/>\nthing you ever wore after me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your face was blue when we first met, the first time I saw you outside of pictures, outside of me. Your whole small body shook with holy cries, hallowed shrieks. They subsided when your tiny cheek pressed over my heart, when we breathed together. You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39965,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions\/39965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}