{"id":240,"date":"2024-04-02T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/?p=240"},"modified":"2024-04-02T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:32:12","slug":"generations-untethered-a-kind-of-mother-by-roisin-begley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/2024\/04\/02\/generations-untethered-a-kind-of-mother-by-roisin-begley\/","title":{"rendered":"GENERATIONS, UNTETHERED \/ A KIND OF MOTHER: By R\u00f3is\u00edn Begley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Generations, Untethered \/ A Kind of Mother:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think my mother is me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I am her mother too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have her eyes, her face,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>her hair, her smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother has my love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where she did not have hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What pronged tongue,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cigarette-stained skin, sunken eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like rotting wood. Sometimes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>responsibility is a kind of burden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>maybe best not worn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generations, Untethered \/ A Kind of Mother: I think my mother is me. I think I am her mother too. I have her eyes, her face, her hair, her smile. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/2024\/04\/02\/generations-untethered-a-kind-of-mother-by-roisin-begley\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}