{"id":118,"date":"2007-01-08T06:12:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/to-the-stars-and-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T06:13:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T14:13:49","slug":"to-the-stars-and-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/to-the-stars-and-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Stars and the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published in LLL of New Mexico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/em>Enchantment<\/p>\n<p>I never got to meet you,<br \/>\nLittle, tiny almost-child;<br \/>\nYou slipped away<br \/>\nTo the stars and the moon<br \/>\nAnd didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come back<br \/>\nTo tell Mommy how beautiful they were.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Your big brother<br \/>\nAnd your not-so-big brother<br \/>\nAnd your great big Daddy<br \/>\nWere ready to love you;<br \/>\nReady to let their hearts grow,<br \/>\nReady to play and tease and wonder<br \/>\nWhat you thought about them.<\/p>\n<p>So, as I look at the stars and the moon<br \/>\nCould you please let me know<br \/>\nHow beautiful they are;<br \/>\nBecause sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard<br \/>\nFor me to see them at all<br \/>\nWithout you here to hold my hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in LLL of New Mexico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Enchantment I never got to meet you, Little, tiny almost-child; You slipped away To the stars and the moon And didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come back To tell Mommy how beautiful they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}