{"id":190,"date":"2016-05-08T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2017-05-18T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:44:42","slug":"mothers-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(revised on Mother&#8217;s Day 2017 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=430\">click to see the new version<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>All creatures have Mothers<br \/>\nand whatever their shape or form<br \/>\nall Mothers have loved their offspring<br \/>\nsince Earth&#8217;s very first dawn<\/p>\n<p>Whether they&#8217;re high in the treetops<br \/>\nor in the forest deep<br \/>\nthey watch over their loved ones<br \/>\nas they stir gently in their sleep<\/p>\n<p>And Mother&#8217;s there to nuture<br \/>\nand lend them a guiding hand<br \/>\nto survive in a shrinking world<br \/>\nravaged by the advance of man<\/p>\n<p>But the Mother&#8217;s low is unanswered<br \/>\nby the calf they&#8217;ve dragged away<br \/>\nSoon she will depart this world herself \u2013<br \/>\nthe abattoir beckons today<\/p>\n<p>The sow mourns her piglets lost<br \/>\nand the ewe her lambs&#8217; horrific fate<br \/>\nAll moving down the production line<br \/>\ntowards man&#8217;s voracious plate<\/p>\n<p>The elephant calf sways in distress<br \/>\nbeside Mother&#8217;s body in the dust<br \/>\nA victim of loathsome poachers<br \/>\nwho killed just to steal her tusks<\/p>\n<p>So spare a thought this Mother&#8217;s day<br \/>\nfor all Mothers large and small<br \/>\nThey all love their children \u2013<br \/>\nWe must learn to love them all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(revised on Mother&#8217;s Day 2017 &#8211; click to see the new version) All creatures have Mothers and whatever their shape or form all Mothers have loved their offspring since Earth&#8217;s very first dawn Whether they&#8217;re high in the treetops or in the forest deep they watch over their loved ones as they stir gently in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,44,46],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poems","tag-animal-rights","tag-mothers-day","tag-vegan"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}