{"id":477,"date":"2013-06-30T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=477"},"modified":"2013-06-30T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:31:23","slug":"27032012-daughter-of-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"27\/03\/2012 &#8211; Daughter of Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of daughter<br \/>\nA phone call.<br \/>\nNow aching arms ironing,<br \/>\nsmoothing wrinkles<br \/>\nlong to hold<br \/>\nson of son close<br \/>\nto my heart<br \/>\nfor solace.<br \/>\nMy heart hurts<br \/>\nfor daughter<br \/>\nand daughter of daughter<br \/>\nyet to be born &#8211;<br \/>\nyet even begun<br \/>\nher tentative life.<br \/>\nWill this be my gift<br \/>\nto her generation?<br \/>\nInherited loss of babies not formed<br \/>\nand babies lost<br \/>\nand babies longed for.<br \/>\nWill she pay the cost<br \/>\nof barrenness?<br \/>\nI will hold you tomorrow<br \/>\nDaughter.<br \/>\nI will wipe our tears<br \/>\nand hold our pain<br \/>\nin my aching ironing,<br \/>\nour empty arms.<br \/>\nMy mother&#8217;s will<br \/>\nwill not spare you this pain.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s your journey to make.<br \/>\nBut my arms will hold you<br \/>\nagain and again<br \/>\nmy heart will ache for you<br \/>\nsmoothe you<br \/>\nrock you, soothe you<br \/>\nas we wait<br \/>\nfor daughter of daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of daughter A phone call. Now aching arms ironing, smoothing wrinkles long to hold son of son close to my heart for solace. My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,28],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry","tag-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}