{"id":62872,"date":"2020-06-27T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62872"},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:16:58","slug":"hour-2-recipe-for-a-happy-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-2-recipe-for-a-happy-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2, Recipe For a Happy Parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recipe for a Happy Parent<\/p>\n<p>1) Patience<\/p>\n<p>2) Wonder<\/p>\n<p>3) Friends<\/p>\n<p>4) Bugs, birds, and butterflies<\/p>\n<p>5) More yes than no<\/p>\n<p>With a lot of help<br \/>\nI raised three humans to adulthood,<br \/>\nand emerged with my sanity intact.<\/p>\n<p>Patience was required throughout,<br \/>\nthe main ingredient for weathering<br \/>\neach whine and fidget,<br \/>\nall tantrums and tears,<br \/>\nevery bit of angst<br \/>\nand sticky embraces.<\/p>\n<p>Outside was our salvation,<br \/>\na blue outdoors our refuge,<br \/>\na grey one our charged entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Friends would come and go,<br \/>\nimparting life lessons<br \/>\non their own paths to elsewhere.<br \/>\nBirds, bugs, butterflies, and books<br \/>\nawaited curious minds<br \/>\nand grubby hands,<br \/>\nfar more lasting<br \/>\nan impression to make.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;yes,&#8221; and a &#8220;yes&#8221;<br \/>\nfor most &#8220;mama, may I . . .?&#8221;s<br \/>\neased them on their way,<br \/>\nmore honey than vinegar<br \/>\nthe potion to cure<br \/>\nso many childhood ills.<\/p>\n<p>I ached for those days<br \/>\nwhen they ended,<br \/>\nfar more than those now<br \/>\ngrown babes,<br \/>\nuntil the day<br \/>\na red, squalling grandson<br \/>\nwas placed in my arms.<\/p>\n<p>A new chance was given<br \/>\nto practice patience<br \/>\nthrough whines and fidgets,<br \/>\ntantrums and tears,<br \/>\nangst and sticky embraces,<br \/>\nas I and my fuzzy headed partner<br \/>\nread, ramble,<br \/>\nwonder, and roam.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Plath<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recipe for a Happy Parent 1) Patience 2) Wonder 3) Friends 4) Bugs, birds, and butterflies 5) More yes than no With a lot of help I raised three humans to adulthood, and emerged with my sanity intact. Patience was required throughout, the main ingredient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62872","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79417,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62872\/revisions\/79417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}