{"id":87847,"date":"2021-06-26T09:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87847"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:34:46","slug":"my-mom-prays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/my-mom-prays\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mom Prays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She prays in bed<\/p>\n<p>as she is wrapped<\/p>\n<p>in a blanket late at night<\/p>\n<p>waiting for God to lull her to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My mom prays<\/p>\n<p>as she greets dawn,<\/p>\n<p>rising to get ready for the day,<\/p>\n<p>thanking Him for being alive<\/p>\n<p>and to be able<\/p>\n<p>to see her kids again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My mom whispers words<\/p>\n<p>of appreciation<\/p>\n<p>before she breaks bread,<\/p>\n<p>before she takes a sip of tea.<\/p>\n<p>She tells Him,<\/p>\n<p>she is grateful for having food.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll take our hands<\/p>\n<p>and close her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll start to pray<\/p>\n<p>asking the Lord to watch over us,<\/p>\n<p>to take care of us<\/p>\n<p>and once again<\/p>\n<p>thanking Him for letting us have jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Mom will always pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She prays in bed as she is wrapped in a blanket late at night waiting for God to lull her to sleep. &nbsp; My mom prays as she greets dawn, rising to get ready for the day, thanking Him for being alive and to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87847","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87892,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87847\/revisions\/87892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}