{"id":67018,"date":"2020-06-27T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67018"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:21:08","slug":"season-of-the-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-the-toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Toddler &#8211; Hour 7 Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the best of times<br \/>\nShort person knee hugs<br \/>\nSloppy peanut butter kisses<br \/>\nand giggles<br \/>\nBut then&#8230;..<br \/>\nA storm and flood of emotions<br \/>\nA tantrum<br \/>\nWaves of wailing and tears<br \/>\nAngry thrashing and toys strewn about<br \/>\nIn the middle of the violent storm<br \/>\nMomentary calm as the eye appeared overhead<br \/>\nBut then, the backside of the eye wall appeared<br \/>\nAnd raged<br \/>\nStrongly filled with screaming, screeching and anger<br \/>\nSeconds seemed like hours<br \/>\nMinutes like days<br \/>\nBut then, as soon as the storm formed, it passed<br \/>\nSanity restored<br \/>\nA wrath of cluttered damage lay strewn<br \/>\nBut the toddler&#8217;s category 5 level of upset<br \/>\nReturned once more<br \/>\nTo knee hugs, peanut butter kisses and giggles<br \/>\nUntil the warm emotional waters churn<br \/>\nThe next Big One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the best of times Short person knee hugs Sloppy peanut butter kisses and giggles But then&#8230;.. A storm and flood of emotions A tantrum Waves of wailing and tears Angry thrashing and toys strewn about In the middle of the violent storm Momentary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136],"tags":[3533,1572,1173,1806,3456,355,3666],"class_list":["post-67018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-2020-poetry-half-marathon","tag-family-poems","tag-half-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-toddler-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67018","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\/1313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67136,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67018\/revisions\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}