{"id":255,"date":"2020-06-30T17:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T22:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/?p=255"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:49:49","slug":"the-reaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/2020\/06\/30\/the-reaping\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reaping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1\/26\/20 &#8211; <br>The call\u2026<br>The words\u2026<br><br>What I have done, he has watched with the keen eyes of hawk.<br>What I have not said, he has taken in with the rhythm of the ocean.<br>What words I have spoken, he has consumed with the memory of an elephant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>How I have acted, he\u2019s scrutinized with the sharpness of RBG.<br>His bittersweet chocolate-colored almond eyes see all.<br><br>This day, I have reaped what I have sown during his 13 years.<br><br>His words are a balm to my sometimes fissured soul<br>like birds singing in elation after a rainstorm, breaking a drought.  <br><br>I know his teen heart, the one we thought lay in it\u2019s puberty-induced dormancy, beats with the wings of an eagle, but is just as easily missed if one looks the other way.<br><br>I will not look the other way\u2026ever again\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will strive to be an even better version of the auntie he sees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Till the next Reaping&#8230;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/26\/20 &#8211; The call\u2026The words\u2026 What I have done, he has watched with the keen eyes of hawk.What I have not said, he has taken&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}