{"id":596,"date":"2008-11-25T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T15:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2008\/11\/25\/poetry\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T15:55:17","slug":"poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2008\/11\/25\/poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once when I was naked I became utterly fascinated by the undulations of my belly as my unborn son moved within me.<br \/>\nYou should probably know that I constantly promise myself that I will be a better parent tomorrow, and I constantly let myself down.<br \/>\nI remember when we moved, and I rode in the backseat of the van with my mother driving, and my infant sister strapped into a dresser drawer on the front seat.<br \/>\nBefore I knew how to drive, I used to devote a lot of time to figuring out how to get my mother to drive me places she didn\u2019t want to go.<br \/>\nMy childhood was an elegant orange ten-speed bike that pinged as stones hit the spokes as I raced down dirt roads that really were better suited to a sturdy mountain bike.<br \/>\nI remember the awful pause after the minister said \u201cas you stand before us, about to be married, think again\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nI\u2019m not interested in how many times you jumped out of a plane before we met; what I want to know is will you still hold my hand, after all these years, as we walk down the street.<br \/>\nI remember the first time I felt a baby move inside me, and the hum he used to make when I fed him.<br \/>\nYou should probably know that your commitment to learning will take you a lot further than any one thing you actually learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once when I was naked I became utterly fascinated by the undulations of my belly as my unborn son moved within me. You should probably know that I constantly promise myself that I will be a better parent tomorrow, and I constantly let myself down. I remember when we moved, and I rode in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2008\/11\/25\/poetry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}