{"id":70693,"date":"2024-03-19T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=70693"},"modified":"2024-03-20T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:03:32","slug":"a-mothers-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/a-mothers-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother’s Tear"},"content":{"rendered":"

It starts with only one
\none like me
\na melancholy migrant
\nfrom the immortal part of her
\nto the locus of her physical being
\nthe center of her emotional wisdom\n

I gain heartfelt strength as I gather my forces
\nrising up en masse
\nriding cresting waves of woe
\nto breach the ramparts
\nthe welling rims
\nof her loving eyes\n

it starts with only one
\none perfectly ripened drop of sorrow
\nthis beautifully packaged pain\n

and a lustrous cascade of soulful pearls ensues
\nwept gems pouring forth from a pure heart\n

I am the tears your mother cries.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It starts with only one one like me a melancholy migrant from the immortal part of her to the locus of her physical being the center of her emotional wisdom I gain heartfelt strength as I gather my forces rising up en masse riding cresting waves of woe to breach the ramparts the welling rims\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":70695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"It starts with only one one like me a melancholy migrant from the immortal part of her to the locus of her physical being the center...","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-Mothers-Tear.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}