{"id":607,"date":"2021-07-04T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=607"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:23:13","slug":"mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/mommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2021 Spring Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Mommy\nMannat Mahal, '24\n\nMommy said so.\nMommy said she\u2019d be back.\nMommy said.\nMommy said.\nShe told me to put on the mask and wait.\nWait for her to come.\nWait.\nShe told me to pluck a pedal off everytime I missed her.\nThe flower was gone.\nWhen would she come back?\nCome back.\nI went outside to play.\nOutside?\nIt was black.\nI could not see.\nSee?\nSomething tickled my leg.\nLeg?\nLeg.\nA black circle climbing up.\nBlack.\nI sat.\nOrange?\nRed?\nA blue roof?\nWith cotton balls?\nA bright yellow apple in the sky.\nWhite triangles in front.\nA friend next to me.\nBlack.\nI didn\u2019t go to it.\nIt came to me.\nA rock?\nA rock with small ears coming off of it.\nThe rock matched Mommy!\nMarble eyes.\nTongue out.\nWas it a dog?\nDog?\nMommy\u2019s sister.\nI sat.\nBlack.\nOrange?\nRed?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mannat Mahal, &#8217;24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}