{"id":130,"date":"2016-03-05T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2016-03-19T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T14:19:27","slug":"to-single-mothers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/to-single-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"To Single Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0073ae;\">TO SINGLE MOTHERS<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here\u2019s praise to single mothers<br \/>\nThe task they have is vast<br \/>\nThe love and care that they must give<br \/>\nLong after they are cast<br \/>\nAside, without compassion<br \/>\nThey burn inside. They weep.<br \/>\nTheir endless struggle<br \/>\nDay and night<br \/>\nLong after we\u2019re asleep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here\u2019s praise to single mothers<br \/>\nThe role they play in life<br \/>\nWithout the strength they one-time had<br \/>\nWhen they were some man\u2019s wife<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here\u2019s praise to single mothers<br \/>\nThey take on life, alone<br \/>\nWith what they have<br \/>\nThey build their lives<br \/>\nTo make a place called home<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here\u2019s praise to single mothers<br \/>\nThey have the right, you know<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t expect<br \/>\nOur deep respect<br \/>\nIts the least to them we owe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/poetry-index-page\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Poetry-Index-button-OPT.jpg\" alt=\"Poetry Index button OPT\" width=\"150\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO SINGLE MOTHERS Here\u2019s praise to single mothers The task they have is vast The love and care that they must give Long after they are cast Aside, without compassion They burn inside. They weep. Their endless struggle Day and night Long after we\u2019re asleep. Here\u2019s praise to single mothers The role they play in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}