{"id":67285,"date":"2020-06-27T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67285"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:42:06","slug":"the-season-of-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-season-of-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son Jack is a phenomenon unto himself.<\/p>\n<p>He blows in and out,<\/p>\n<p>this way and that.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliance in a flash.<\/p>\n<p>Brown eyes beaming<\/p>\n<p>dimples gleaming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s awkward to talk to flowers,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>he says, moving my wildflowers<\/p>\n<p>from his sight line.<\/p>\n<p>He notices, fixes and builds the broken.<\/p>\n<p>A detail, no-detail man.<\/p>\n<p>Purpose-driven for reasons<\/p>\n<p>only he knows.<\/p>\n<p>This boy. This passion.<\/p>\n<p>This wild child, this curious dreamer.<\/p>\n<p>This season of the senior.<\/p>\n<p>So many unknowns<\/p>\n<p>still to conquer.<\/p>\n<p>So batten down the hatches<\/p>\n<p>the season of the Jack<\/p>\n<p>is really just beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son Jack is a phenomenon unto himself. He blows in and out, this way and that. Brilliance in a flash. Brown eyes beaming dimples gleaming. &#8220;It&#8217;s awkward to talk to flowers,&#8221; he says, moving my wildflowers from his sight line. He notices, fixes and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67285","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\/1350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67393,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67285\/revisions\/67393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}