{"id":1097,"date":"2008-01-24T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/im-glad-its-not-just-me\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T03:36:27","slug":"im-glad-its-not-just-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/im-glad-its-not-just-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s not just me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCUSE FOR NOT RETURNING THE VISIT OF A FRIEND<\/strong><br \/>\nDo not be offended because<br \/>\nI am slow to go out. You know<br \/>\nMe too well for that. On my lap<br \/>\nI hold my little girl. At my<br \/>\nKnees stands my handsome little son.<br \/>\nOne has just begun to talk.<br \/>\nThe other chatters without<br \/>\nStopping. They hang on my clothes<br \/>\nAnd follow my every step.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t get any farther<br \/>\nThan the door. I am afraid<br \/>\nI will never make it to your house. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.whittier.edu\/academic\/english\/Chinese\/Meiyaochen.htm\">Mei Yaochen <\/a> (translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bopsecrets.org\/rexroth\/\">Kenneth Rexroth<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>(posted from the Singapore airport)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">AN EXCUSE FOR NOT RETURNING THE VISIT OF A FRIEND Do not be offended because I am slow to go out. You know Me too well for that. On my lap I hold my little girl. At my Knees stands my handsome little son. One has just begun to talk. The other chatters without Stopping. They hang on my clothes&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/im-glad-its-not-just-me\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[111,194],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-parenting","tag-poem","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-hH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}