{"id":555,"date":"2004-07-01T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/07\/01\/childwind\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:54:43","slug":"childwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/07\/01\/childwind\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILDWIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaicminds.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mosaic Minds<\/a> is bright and beautiful with a new masthead by <a href=\"http:\/\/galestorm.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">galestorm<\/a> and chock-full of incredibly interesting, well-written and amusing pieces from our energetic and talented staff. Go check out the new issue, titled <b>What If?<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Childwind<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by Elizabeth Slaughter-Ek<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Her hand is cupped to her cheek<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s finally asleep<br \/>\nMy back cramps against the too small headboard<br \/>\nAnd I ease my way upright<br \/>\nStretching<\/p>\n<p>Standing there, I could stand there<br \/>\nForever my eyes holding her<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s never still<br \/>\nExcept when she&#8217;s sleeping<br \/>\nGod knows she doesn&#8217;t need much<br \/>\nA few hours charge her buzzing body<br \/>\nSend her zooming into the stratosphere<br \/>\nA whirling, smiling childwind<\/p>\n<p>I thought I didn&#8217;t want kids<br \/>\nMy eyes betray me<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s mine I&#8217;m hers<br \/>\nWhat if I&#8217;d never seen her<br \/>\nStomping grinning blur?<br \/>\nHer hand cupped to her cheek<\/p>\n<p>I close the door and leave her sleeping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosaic Minds is bright and beautiful with a new masthead by galestorm and chock-full of incredibly interesting, well-written and amusing pieces from our energetic and talented staff. Go check out the new issue, titled What If?. Childwind by Elizabeth Slaughter-Ek Her hand is cupped to her cheek She&#8217;s finally asleep My back cramps against the too small headboard And I ease my way upright Stretching Standing there, I could stand there Forever my eyes holding her She&#8217;s never still Except when she&#8217;s sleeping God knows she doesn&#8217;t need much A few hours charge her buzzing body Send her zooming into&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}