{"id":2795,"date":"2013-05-30T18:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2013-05-30T18:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:25:54","slug":"mothers-day-is-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/poetry\/mothers-day-is-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day, is Every Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia recently returned from her Middle School trip to Washington, DC. During her time away, she composed this poem. Pay special attention to the first letter of each line. I think each line describes Julia, as she sees herself.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>T<\/strong>here once was a girl.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> H<\/strong>ow did she grow to be so strong?<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> E<\/strong>very thing she saw, she saw with love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>M<\/strong>aybe it was something in the water.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> O<\/strong>r maybe it was something different something strong.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> T<\/strong>his girl was like nothing else anyone had ever seen.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> H<\/strong>er eyes were that of an old soul.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> E<\/strong>very thing she loved grew strong.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> R<\/strong>oses bloomed at her touch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>W<\/strong>here did she learn all of these things?<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> H<\/strong>ow did she obtain this power?<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> O<\/strong>utlandish is what she was<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>L<\/strong>oving was in her nature.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> O<\/strong>n the ground she could fly.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> V<\/strong>alor is what she wishes for.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> E<\/strong>ven though others think her to be odd.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> S<\/strong>he could smile through hell and back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>H<\/strong>er health may be poor sometimes.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> E<\/strong>arnings may be low.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> R<\/strong>eminisce she will when the world has her down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>D<\/strong>anger is no longer a fear.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> A<\/strong>dventure is what she searches for.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> U<\/strong>nable she will never be.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> G<\/strong>rateful for all she is.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> H<\/strong>er life could never be better.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> T<\/strong>here&#8217;s more to say.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> E<\/strong>very chance she gets she will say I love you.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> R<\/strong>eady as I&#8217;ll ever be I give you this poem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was able to do everything I have up to now because of the mother who loves her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>To my loving mum,<br \/>\nfrom Julia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia recently returned from her Middle School trip to Washington, DC. During her time away, she composed this poem. Pay special attention to the first letter of each line. I think each line describes Julia, as she sees herself. There once was a girl. How did she grow to be so strong? Every thing she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}