{"id":97325,"date":"2021-06-26T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97325"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:30:03","slug":"ear-aches-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ear-aches-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear aches&#8211;7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crying in the middle<br \/>\nof the night-<br \/>\nmama mama<br \/>\nwhere are you?<br \/>\nIt hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Whispered feet<br \/>\non the carpet<br \/>\nCome now child<br \/>\nIt will be alright<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got you<\/p>\n<p>Dark halls<br \/>\nDark rooms<br \/>\nso warm-<br \/>\nI&#8217;m ok<br \/>\nwrapped up tight<\/p>\n<p>smell of coffee<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t lull me to sleep<br \/>\nit&#8217;s funny when you slurp<\/p>\n<p>sshh sshh<br \/>\nI have you<br \/>\nclose your eyes<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re safe in my<br \/>\nhands<\/p>\n<p>God entrusted you<br \/>\nto me because he knows<br \/>\nI can care for you<\/p>\n<p>Swaying back and forth<br \/>\nhumming<br \/>\nstroking my forehead<br \/>\nsleepy<br \/>\nso sleepy<\/p>\n<p>mama, mama<br \/>\nit helps being in your hands<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t hurt as much now<br \/>\njust really itchy<\/p>\n<p>Lifted up<br \/>\nwhispered feet on the carpet<br \/>\nonce more<br \/>\nkinda chilly<\/p>\n<p>more humming<br \/>\nsnuffling into my pillow<br \/>\nthere you are Red Baby<br \/>\nI wondered where you were<\/p>\n<p>mama, mama<br \/>\nwill you stay with me<br \/>\na while longer? Can&#8217;t hear you<br \/>\nMama?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crying in the middle of the night- mama mama where are you? It hurts. Whispered feet on the carpet Come now child It will be alright I&#8217;ve got you Dark halls Dark rooms so warm- I&#8217;m ok wrapped up tight smell of coffee won&#8217;t lull&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97325","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\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97337,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97325\/revisions\/97337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}