{"id":8048,"date":"2015-06-13T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:40:27","slug":"mother-why-dont-you-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/mother-why-dont-you-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, why don&#8217;t you talk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Mother, it&#8217;s been a long time,<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you talk?<\/p>\n<p>Tell me of all the things you did today..<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s really okay if you did nothing extraordinary..<\/p>\n<p>Mother, why don&#8217;t you ask me how I&#8217;m doing?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have nothing extraordinary to say too<\/p>\n<p>And you want to hang up..<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s really okay, mother!<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t always have to say extraordinary things.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Mother, don&#8217;t keep the phone just yet..<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t even been five minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I hear you try to stifle a yawn..<\/p>\n<p>How can I tell you,<\/p>\n<p>And will you ever know..<\/p>\n<p>That just hearing your voice<\/p>\n<p>Fills up the emptiness in me,<\/p>\n<p>Makes me want to do thousands of things..<\/p>\n<p>Makes me want to go out into the world,<\/p>\n<p>And smile at everyone..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","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\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}