{"id":94101,"date":"2021-06-26T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94101"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:57:39","slug":"steel-magnolia-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/steel-magnolia-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Magnolia Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If only you had not had the child<\/p>\n<p>and your body was healthy,<\/p>\n<p>what wonders would have been in store<\/p>\n<p>for you and your honorable husband?<\/p>\n<p>How would your mother have felt without<\/p>\n<p>the platinum blonde baby boy bouncing<\/p>\n<p>in her lap or your dad&#8217;s smiling eyes<\/p>\n<p>gazing at his offspring?<\/p>\n<p>If only you had not had the illness,<\/p>\n<p>the cancer, the accident, the divorce,<\/p>\n<p>the problem that changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>If only&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it happened as it did and you go your<\/p>\n<p>way as we go ours &#8211; into the wilderness &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>into the seasons of the sun.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77549\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/translucent-hands-shadow-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/translucent-hands-shadow-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/translucent-hands-shadow.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If only you had not had the child and your body was healthy, what wonders would have been in store for you and your honorable husband? How would your mother have felt without the platinum blonde baby boy bouncing in her lap or your dad&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101","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\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94256,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101\/revisions\/94256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}