{"id":1810,"date":"2012-12-25T20:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T01:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2012-12-25T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T01:55:13","slug":"a-childs-poem-to-her-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/poetry\/a-childs-poem-to-her-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"A child&#8217;s poem, to her mother."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following, is a true treat for any parent.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite youngest child wrote a poem for her mother, as a gift for Christmas. I received a more practical, yet equally thoughtful gift from her \u2013 a pack of cushion soled socks \u2013 they cushion both my soul, and my feet, and I have my stock replenished each Christmas, by my choice.<\/p>\n<p>Without further delay, here is Julia\u2019s hand written poem, reproduced faithfully, un-embellished, and true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From my mum<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I have learnt<\/em><br \/>\n<em> so many things,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> how to bake and,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> how to sew<\/em><br \/>\n<em> so many things<\/em><br \/>\n<em> others don\u2019t know<\/em><br \/>\n<em> but most of all<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I have learnt to<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Survive amist<\/em><br \/>\n<em> this aphotic world<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Not with Hate<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Not with avarice<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But with kindness<\/em><br \/>\n<em> That comes from<\/em><br \/>\n<em> the Heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Does a parent\u2019s pride ever bow before reality? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/thought?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#thought<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/277463982586081281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Does a parent\u2019s pride ever bow before reality? #thought<\/h6>\n<p>With a child as wonderful as Julia is, there is no need, for her words are closer to reality, than my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following, is a true treat for any parent. My favorite youngest child wrote a poem for her mother, as a gift for Christmas. I received a more practical, yet equally thoughtful gift from her \u2013 a pack of cushion soled socks \u2013 they cushion both my soul, and my feet, and I have my stock [&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-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}