{"id":8395,"date":"2015-06-13T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:22:14","slug":"the-mother-age-524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-mother-age-524\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother Age &#8211; 5\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my mother- her face ages<\/p>\n<p>from cigarettes and smiles<\/p>\n<p>middle-life women call them laugh lines<\/p>\n<p>in bitter humor<\/p>\n<p>on their eleventh\u00a0anniversary of their twenty-ninth birthday<\/p>\n<p>and with age, comes tears<\/p>\n<p>a sort of sopping heaviness,<\/p>\n<p>leaking out like a dirty mop over the edges of youth<\/p>\n<p>filling the cracks that the smiles made-<\/p>\n<p>ruining the edges of the pictures<\/p>\n<p>each year, another pound for the heart to carry<\/p>\n<p>in a life anchor<\/p>\n<p>no wonder she looks so tired.<\/p>\n<p>she&#8217;s tied like a ship by the years,<\/p>\n<p>slowly sinking,<\/p>\n<p>bated her breaths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my mother- her face ages from cigarettes and smiles middle-life women call them laugh lines in bitter humor on their eleventh\u00a0anniversary of their twenty-ninth birthday and with age, comes tears a sort of sopping heaviness, leaking out like a dirty mop over the edges of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}