{"id":55736,"date":"2019-06-23T02:18:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55736"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:18:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:18:20","slug":"to-the-child-who-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/to-the-child-who-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"To the child who struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>To the child who struggles:\r\n    When I see the smile light up your face\r\n    It makes my heart sing loud\r\n    When you accomplish a goal in your daily race\r\n    My hands start up clapping, proud.\r\n    A bite of yogurt goes in your mouth\r\n    A word like, \u201cHello!\u201d is released by your tongue\r\n    Colours, letters, numbers, shapes\r\n    Are things you struggle with, but they\u2019ll come!\r\n    Your tiny little body has been through so much,\r\n    But I am here to help you learn and grow.\r\n    Never give up, you will be just fine\r\n    Your courage and humour will help the flow.\r\nMuch love,\r\nYour D<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the child who struggles: When I see the smile light up your face It makes my heart sing loud When you accomplish a goal in your daily race My hands start up clapping, proud. A bite of yogurt goes in your mouth A word&#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-55736","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\/55736","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=55736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55745,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55736\/revisions\/55745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}