{"id":64063,"date":"2020-06-27T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64063"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:45:52","slug":"this-is-taking-too-much-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/this-is-taking-too-much-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Taking Too Much From Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This pandemic is getting to me<br \/>\nPandemic led to budget cuts<br \/>\nBudget cuts lead to decreased funding<br \/>\nDecreased funding has caused me to lose my kids<br \/>\nThe ones I work with<br \/>\nThe ones I care for<\/p>\n<p>This is taking too much from me<\/p>\n<p>I take care of five kids per year<br \/>\nI have done so for the last nine years<br \/>\nThey come to me often just from high school<br \/>\nTrying to find their place in the world<br \/>\nAnd in this institution<br \/>\nAnd in this job<br \/>\nI take them by the hand<br \/>\nAnd lead them in<\/p>\n<p>This is taking too much from me<\/p>\n<p>The horrible part is there is no solution<br \/>\nThere is no way to fix this<br \/>\nMoney being taken away<br \/>\nOften stays away<br \/>\nAnd I am wondering<br \/>\nWhen I\u2019ll ever have a brood again<\/p>\n<p>This is taking too much from me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pandemic is getting to me Pandemic led to budget cuts Budget cuts lead to decreased funding Decreased funding has caused me to lose my kids The ones I work with The ones I care for This is taking too much from me I take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64063","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\/64063","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64081,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64063\/revisions\/64081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}