{"id":72237,"date":"2020-06-27T22:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72237"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:40:47","slug":"mothersgonetogarden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mothersgonetogarden\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Gone to Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how you sow the seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Is it the tender loving care? Really?<\/p>\n<p>Why did you have to leave so soon.\u00a0 I truly wish that I had known.<\/p>\n<p>Made bitter by the fact. My momma left like that.<\/p>\n<p>Daughters, we<\/p>\n<p>Learn, to tend the darker things<\/p>\n<p>To weed.\u00a0 Garden till you&#8217;re feeling grounded.<\/p>\n<p>So the pests ~<\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t fester<\/p>\n<p>Would you, as an angel<\/p>\n<p>Always cry, roses and rain. Have to smile. A lovely gift.<\/p>\n<p>Mother.<\/p>\n<p>To no one else, but me<\/p>\n<p>Them memories, last forever<\/p>\n<p>Long ago, seemingly<\/p>\n<p>After all.\u00a0 I am my mother&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Am, till I too am called<\/p>\n<p>Gone to garden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Robin Wall Kimerer Quote: done golden nugget style<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how you sow the seeds. Is it the tender loving care? Really? Why did you have to leave so soon.\u00a0 I truly wish that I had known. Made bitter by the fact. My momma left like that. Daughters, we Learn, to tend the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3865],"class_list":["post-72237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2020hr14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72237","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\/730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77523,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72237\/revisions\/77523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}