{"id":98384,"date":"2021-06-26T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98384"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:35:09","slug":"children-of-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/children-of-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children of my mind, you are no less<br \/>\nThan the children of my body.<br \/>\nYou are the creations I&#8217;ve laboured over<br \/>\nBy myself, needing no friend or lover<br \/>\n(Parthenogenesis).<br \/>\nDeep in my subconscious lay the seed<br \/>\nOf what you would one day be.<br \/>\nYou have been moulded by the placenta of thought<br \/>\nNourished by streams of considered thought<br \/>\nColoured by my opinions, growing in me<br \/>\nOffshoot, too, of friends, of family. <\/p>\n<p>Fully formed, you delight my eye,<br \/>\nI set you free, you let me fly.<br \/>\nI have been an empty nester for years<br \/>\nYou keep me busy, bring me cheer. <\/p>\n<p>Though we&#8217;re tethered together so tenuously<br \/>\nI know that you&#8217;ll always be there for me.<br \/>\nAnd i can grow still further, i find,<br \/>\nWith you, the children of my mind! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children of my mind, you are no less Than the children of my body. You are the creations I&#8217;ve laboured over By myself, needing no friend or lover (Parthenogenesis). Deep in my subconscious lay the seed Of what you would one day be. You have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4101,2390,4301,4602],"class_list":["post-98384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-halfmarathon","tag-halfmarathon-2021halfmarathon","tag-imaginary-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98384","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\/2849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98562,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98384\/revisions\/98562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}