{"id":2826,"date":"2011-05-08T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T10:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:30:04","slug":"mothers-day-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2826","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to my own sweetie<br \/>\nA momma I helped you become,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span>As a wife and a mother<br \/>\nYou\u2019re surpassed by no other,<br \/>\nIn fact, dear, you are quite the plum!<\/p>\n<p>I wish we could go to Tahiti<br \/>\nA vacation in line with your worth<br \/>\nBut the costs are so high<br \/>\nSuch a distance to fly!<br \/>\nInstead, then, I bought you a purth.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d scribble it bold in graffiti<br \/>\nWhat a wonderful mother you is<br \/>\nOur kids are so lucky,<br \/>\nTo have you, dear ducky,<br \/>\nYou\u2019re great! (let me give you a kiss.)<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a handbag (a purth)\u00a0online as a Mother&#8217;s Day gift and checked the Is-this-a-gift? box which gave me 160 characters to use for a greeting to be included with the package.\u00a0 I tried to\u00a0insert the first two stanzas but only the first fit, so that&#8217;s all she&#8217;ll get with the package.\u00a0 I added a third stanza so I could post a more complete poem here\u00a0as a cyber-card to my dear from her word-crazy husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to my own sweetie A momma I helped you become, As a wife and a mother You\u2019re surpassed by no other, In fact, dear, you are quite the plum! I wish we could go to Tahiti A &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,519],"tags":[379,377,378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}