{"id":1741,"date":"2012-04-22T21:21:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/tuck\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T05:01:30","slug":"tuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/tuck\/","title":{"rendered":"tuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I arise <br \/>\nbefore dawn <br \/>\nand in those first few moments <br \/>\nI am six again <br \/>\nalone in the endless dark <br \/>\nnot quite afraid but <br \/>\nfar from mommy and home. <br \/>\nThat innocence passes <br \/>\nmore quickly this time <br \/>\nwith the coming of the light <br \/>\nthe radio informs <br \/>\nas the coffee cooks <br \/>\nand I tuck that child <br \/>\nsafely back into <br \/>\nhis corner of my head:  <br \/>\nshh-shh <br \/>\nit&#8217;s ok <br \/>\ngo back to sleep. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>10\/27\/2005<\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to <a href='http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/tuck.mp3' class=\"wpaudio\">tuck<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/my-virtual-chapbook\/\">My Virtual Chapbook<\/a> (table of contents)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I arise before dawn and in those first few moments I am six again alone in the endless dark not quite afraid but far from mommy and home. That innocence passes more quickly this time with the coming of the light the radio informs as the coffee cooks and I tuck that child safely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/tuck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tuck<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[83,82,81],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-childhood","tag-dawn","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}