{"id":72494,"date":"2020-06-27T23:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72494"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:08:17","slug":"if-i-have-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/if-i-have-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"If I have Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I have Daughters<\/p>\n<p>They must be a fine seed<br \/>\nviable even in arid lands.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, Earth knows your essence:<\/p>\n<p>I planted  songs of praise<br \/>\nfor those who take care<br \/>\nof us \u2013 me and my kinds<br \/>\ntermed as open wounds<br \/>\nto be sauced with salt,<br \/>\nalong the way to the markets<br \/>\nwithout calling names.<br \/>\nA woman wrote your name<br \/>\non a paper and placed<br \/>\nit on my palm. It reads:<br \/>\nyour mother tops the list.<br \/>\nIf I have daughters,<br \/>\nthey must be you \u2013<br \/>\na gardener of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I have Daughters They must be a fine seed viable even in arid lands. Mother, Earth knows your essence: I planted songs of praise for those who take care of us \u2013 me and my kinds termed as open wounds to be sauced with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72494","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86334,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72494\/revisions\/86334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}