{"id":47421,"date":"2019-06-22T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47421"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:01:04","slug":"the-magic-of-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-magic-of-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of motherhood (Prompt 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my 5 year old daughter was birthed with wonder in her eyes<\/p>\n<p>so bright and full<\/p>\n<p>she offers me a million questions a day<\/p>\n<p>Overwhelming my need for silence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i am not a patient mother<\/p>\n<p>though my 5 year old is patient with me<\/p>\n<p>her eyes are encouraging<\/p>\n<p>never concluding<\/p>\n<p>just asking<\/p>\n<p>for what she needs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She is teaching me to look beyond the \u201cmommy frustration\u201d<\/p>\n<p>to breathe<\/p>\n<p>to answer<\/p>\n<p>to hug<\/p>\n<p>to love<\/p>\n<p>to pay attention<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>instead of rushing to get back to<\/p>\n<p>something<\/p>\n<p>back to work<\/p>\n<p>back to reading<\/p>\n<p>back to the song<\/p>\n<p>back to not paying attention<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>she is teaching me to envision my future with more patience and time with life\u2019s questions<\/p>\n<p>with her questions<\/p>\n<p>she is my wonder&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>she is magic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my 5 year old daughter was birthed with wonder in her eyes so bright and full she offers me a million questions a day Overwhelming my need for silence &nbsp; i am not a patient mother though my 5 year old is patient with me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47421","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47421\/revisions\/47646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}