{"id":65269,"date":"2020-06-27T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65269"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:48:33","slug":"4-dear-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/4-dear-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"#4. Dear Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How could I know<br \/>\nthe last time we hugged<br \/>\nwould be forever?<br \/>\nHow can it be<br \/>\nI will no longer see<br \/>\nyour hands, your eyes, your smile?<br \/>\nI can still hear your whistle<br \/>\n(in the end, so soft like a whisper, but there, nonetheless)<br \/>\nI treasure your cards,<br \/>\nyour writing an art, like calligraphy.<br \/>\nAnd the words they contain,<br \/>\nfull of love to sustain and inspire me.<br \/>\nYou were the grandmother of my children\u2019s dreams&#8230;<br \/>\nembracing and creating where their fathers could not be.<br \/>\nOh mama, it seems only yesterday<br \/>\nwe drank tea on your balcony<br \/>\nthere, in the evening desert warmth.<br \/>\nThank you for accepting me, as myself.<br \/>\nThank you for growing and raising your compassion<br \/>\nAnd modeling<br \/>\nthe grace<br \/>\nof being.<br \/>\nI remain,<br \/>\nForever Yours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could I know the last time we hugged would be forever? How can it be I will no longer see your hands, your eyes, your smile? I can still hear your whistle (in the end, so soft like a whisper, but there, nonetheless) I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65269","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\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65521,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65269\/revisions\/65521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}