{"id":104,"date":"2012-12-17T23:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-12-17T23:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T07:19:15","slug":"moms-lullaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/moms-lullaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom&#8217;s Lullaby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing the music I create is one of the more legitimate reasons I started this blog. To kick it off I am sharing something I wrote years back for my own momma. One day, I was thinking of all the amazing things my mom has done for me.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, I&#8217;m not sure my mom really gets me but that has never seemed to matter to her. She has always given to me selflessly, tirelessly, effortlessly&#8230;I wanted her to know that even if I act like a jerk, even if I disappear for a while or even if I simply don&#8217;t say much that I love her dearly, I&#8217;m doing okay in life and I fear the day I will be forced to live without her.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s for all the mommas. Your own. Your ex&#8217;s. Your best friend&#8217;s. All of them.<\/p>\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F71658769&visual=true&color=c700b3\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mom,<\/p>\n<p>I love you so much<br \/>\nI want you to feel special<br \/>\neven when I&#8217;m not around<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry<br \/>\nWhen I treat you bad<br \/>\nPretending that I&#8217;m mad<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m really rather sad<\/p>\n<p>What you don&#8217;t know (things I should have said&#8230;)<br \/>\nis that my life<br \/>\nturned out alright<br \/>\nI&#8217;m happy, I love you.<\/p>\n<p>Mom,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t worry so much<br \/>\nYes I&#8217;m eating fine<br \/>\nsee I even packed a lunch<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry when I see you cry<br \/>\nLife is always tough<br \/>\nwhen your daddy drinks too much<\/p>\n<p>What you don&#8217;t know (hear my voice instead&#8230;)<br \/>\nis that my life<br \/>\nturned out alright<br \/>\nI&#8217;m happy, I love you.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stand to think<br \/>\nthat nothing really lasts forever<br \/>\nIt woke me from my sleep<br \/>\nIt scares me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t go<br \/>\nmy life<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t know<br \/>\nhow to be alone<\/p>\n<p>Somehow<br \/>\nplease know<br \/>\nI&#8217;d do it all again&#8230;<br \/>\nsomehow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve done<br \/>\nso much<br \/>\nby now<br \/>\nit&#8217;s got to be enough<br \/>\nand still<br \/>\nwhen I see you smile<br \/>\nthere you go again&#8230;you give me everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing the music I create is one of the more legitimate reasons I started this blog. To kick it off I am sharing something I wrote years back for my own momma. One day, I was thinking of all the amazing things my mom has done for me. To this day, I&#8217;m not sure my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/moms-lullaby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mom&#8217;s Lullaby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}