{"id":69140,"date":"2020-06-27T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69140"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:30:20","slug":"hour-10-shadow-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-10-shadow-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10, Shadow Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two shadow heartbeats<br \/>\non a grey and white screen<br \/>\nthumped in synchrony with each other<br \/>\nand with my own heart,<br \/>\na trifecta of burgeoning life<br \/>\nwithin me.<\/p>\n<p>Sprouting growing limbs,<br \/>\norgans, fingers, and toes<br \/>\nfrom tiny tadpole bodies,<br \/>\nthey danced and squirmed round each other,<br \/>\nmy identical, beautiful girls.<\/p>\n<p>Two shadow heartbeats<br \/>\none day on that screen<br \/>\nde-synchronized, one gone.<br \/>\nTwo girl bodies remained,<br \/>\nswayed in the reflected rhythm,<br \/>\nbut one unformed soul had fled,<br \/>\none living girl growing within me<br \/>\none girl dead.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later I birthed them both,<br \/>\nidentical still to the end,<br \/>\none live child to rejoice in the light,<br \/>\none child a shadow forever more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two shadow heartbeats on a grey and white screen thumped in synchrony with each other and with my own heart, a trifecta of burgeoning life within me. Sprouting growing limbs, organs, fingers, and toes from tiny tadpole bodies, they danced and squirmed round each other,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69710,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140\/revisions\/69710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}