{"id":52720,"date":"2019-06-22T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52720"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:16:00","slug":"to-deanna-the-young-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/to-deanna-the-young-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"To Deanna, the Young Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Deanna, the Young Mom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\nChin up my dear, it\u2019s tough I know<br \/>\nIf anyone knows that it\u2019s me.<br \/>\nTo have a child who is always sick<br \/>\nAnother with a disAbility.<br \/>\nTake the journey day by day<br \/>\nLearn all you can know<br \/>\nIt is perfectly okay to cry in the night<br \/>\nFor the life you won\u2019t ever know.<br \/>\nWhat might surprise you, my sweet<br \/>\nIs the life that you WILL know<br \/>\nA life that\u2019s full of happy things<br \/>\nIn spite of your time in the lows.<br \/>\nThe boys will be just fine<br \/>\nWith typical woes mostly<br \/>\nA few things that might shock you<br \/>\nBut life is like that, you see.<br \/>\nWhen the children are all grown<br \/>\nYou will find the freedom to soar.<br \/>\nYou will go back to school in your 40\u2019s<br \/>\nIn order to learn some more.<br \/>\nA job will come your way, my friend<br \/>\nThat will answer that yearning call<br \/>\nA job of helping others<br \/>\nIn the journey you have already walked.<\/p>\n<p>With lots of love,<\/p>\n<p>From Deanna, the Older Mom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Deanna, the Young Mom, Chin up my dear, it\u2019s tough I know If anyone knows that it\u2019s me. To have a child who is always sick Another with a disAbility. Take the journey day by day Learn all you can know It is perfectly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52737,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720\/revisions\/52737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}