{"id":64281,"date":"2020-06-27T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64281"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:03:47","slug":"64281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/64281\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was one month before<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My last child was born<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That you were no more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We called her Erin Kelly<\/p>\n<p>The last of your legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Did I forget to mention<\/p>\n<p>Her beauty defied comprehension?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the lace and curls<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did not suit baby girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She transitioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now we call her him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And mom loved again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It took a while for her<\/p>\n<p>To accept your permission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one month before My last child was born That you were no more. We called her Erin Kelly The last of your legacy. Did I forget to mention Her beauty defied comprehension? But the lace and curls Did not suit baby girl. She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64281","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\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65169,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64281\/revisions\/65169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}