{"id":76440,"date":"2020-06-28T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76440"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:15:53","slug":"gift-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/gift-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my mom-mom has a gift waiting for me<br \/>\nof a Christmas cactus<br \/>\nher daughter told her<br \/>\nabout my growing plant collection<br \/>\nso she took a cutting<br \/>\nfrom her own mother plant<br \/>\nto give to me<br \/>\nwhen next we meet<br \/>\nI cannot go to get it<br \/>\nwhile the virus rages on<br \/>\none little piece of cactus<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t worth the risk<br \/>\nshe has survived<br \/>\npast childhood (several siblings didn&#8217;t)<br \/>\nthrough cancer and the toxic treatment<br \/>\nI would give all my leafy children<br \/>\nplus some hundred more<br \/>\nso that this, too,<br \/>\nshe strides past<br \/>\nto give her gifts herself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my mom-mom has a gift waiting for me of a Christmas cactus her daughter told her about my growing plant collection so she took a cutting from her own mother plant to give to me when next we meet I cannot go to get it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76440","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76470,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76440\/revisions\/76470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}