{"id":92217,"date":"2021-06-26T14:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92217"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:43:46","slug":"a-long-drive-hour-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-long-drive-hour-6\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Drive &#8211; Hour 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jonathan-adams-Nbt7kwQMQ80-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are we there yet, Mommy? Are we there yet?<\/p>\n<p>Soon, baby, soon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what I kept telling my son who sat in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>Mile after mile as we drove to our destination.<\/p>\n<p>Daddy.<\/p>\n<p>He was returning from his last tour of duty overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Daddy.<\/p>\n<p>He was finally coming home.<\/p>\n<p>Daddy.<\/p>\n<p>My husband\u2019s \u201cmini-me\u201d kept pointing out the window at each plane he saw.<\/p>\n<p>Is that him, Mommy? Is that him?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know, baby, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what I kept telling my son who sat in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>Mile after mile as we drove to our destination.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a year since my husband left. A lot had happened in that time.<\/p>\n<p>I looked down at my growing belly and sighed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we there yet, Mommy? Are we there yet? Soon, baby, soon. That\u2019s what I kept telling my son who sat in the back seat. Mile after mile as we drove to our destination. Daddy. He was returning from his last tour of duty overseas&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92217","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\/2967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92217"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102087,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92217\/revisions\/102087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}