{"id":115,"date":"2014-07-18T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2020-06-11T20:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:58:14","slug":"birth-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/?page_id=115","title":{"rendered":"Our Birth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, frightened<br \/>\nwearily straining my child-woman\u2019s body<br \/>\nagainst or for you<br \/>\n(I knew not which)<br \/>\nbrought you forth.<br \/>\nI was surprised<br \/>\nat the warm, wet mass that was you<br \/>\nand marveled at your smallness<br \/>\nat your aliveness on your own<br \/>\nas you were severed from me.<\/p>\n<p>And now<br \/>\non this celebration of our birth day<br \/>\nI humbly acknowledge<br \/>\nthe woman you\u2019ve become.<br \/>\nI marvel at our alikeness<br \/>\nand our unsameness<br \/>\nand your aliveness on your own.<\/p>\n<p>From me you came<br \/>\nand my soul will never cease<br \/>\nits watchful inclination toward you.<\/p>\n<p>From me you came<br \/>\nand from that first<br \/>\nstirring deep within me<br \/>\nthere was spawned<br \/>\na womb-deep love<br \/>\nthat defies distance<br \/>\nand knows not<br \/>\nseverance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1406153542527_51595\" style=\"color: #000000;\">by nanci lee woody<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, frightened wearily straining my child-woman\u2019s body against or for you (I knew not which) brought you forth. I was surprised at the warm, wet mass that was you and marveled at your smallness at your aliveness on your own as you were severed from me. And now on this celebration of our birth day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}