{"id":87981,"date":"2021-06-26T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87981"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:05:03","slug":"rebecca-to-tie-firmly-to-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/rebecca-to-tie-firmly-to-bind\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca: To Tie Firmly, To Bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She wanted me to call her Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>I complied.<\/p>\n<p>But not at the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three years ago today,<\/p>\n<p>My brother called.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d died of a stroke in the night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom\u2019s dead?\u201d \u201cMom\u2019s dead?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My then six-year-old son reported my reaction.<\/p>\n<p>I have no memory of my words.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only incredulity<\/p>\n<p>Only dismay<\/p>\n<p>Only shattering<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How I remember her final words:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, your brother, and your sister are my<\/p>\n<p>Greatest gift to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mom\u2019s final gift to me<\/p>\n<p>A blessing without end<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s memory a blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She wanted me to call her Rebecca. I complied. But not at the end. &nbsp; Twenty-three years ago today, My brother called. She\u2019d died of a stroke in the night. &nbsp; \u201cMom\u2019s dead?\u201d \u201cMom\u2019s dead?\u201d My then six-year-old son reported my reaction. I have no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87981","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\/3335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90156,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87981\/revisions\/90156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}