{"id":61663,"date":"2020-06-27T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61663"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:08:12","slug":"i-wish-i-could-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/i-wish-i-could-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish I Could Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alone in a world unfamiliar<\/p>\n<p>Searching for family in a sea of strangers<\/p>\n<p>Jane, her new name, doesn&#8217;t sound right in her mouth<\/p>\n<p>Life churning and growing in her<\/p>\n<p>Life in Korea still going, like she never left<\/p>\n<p>8 siblings soon to greet her<\/p>\n<p>4 children<\/p>\n<p>7 grandchildren<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n<p>The granddaughter of an immigrant<\/p>\n<p>Feeding me cloves of pickled garlic<\/p>\n<p>To help me grow up to be beautiful<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could tell you what your sacrifices would yield<\/p>\n<p>That they were worth it<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t my place to say though<\/p>\n<p>For now it is just<\/p>\n<p>Jane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone in a world unfamiliar Searching for family in a sea of strangers Jane, her new name, doesn&#8217;t sound right in her mouth Life churning and growing in her Life in Korea still going, like she never left 8 siblings soon to greet her 4&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61663","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62688,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61663\/revisions\/62688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}