{"id":1884,"date":"2016-05-18T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:43","slug":"may-11-to-a-daughter-leaving-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/05\/18\/may-11-to-a-daughter-leaving-home\/","title":{"rendered":"May 11   &#8220;To a Daughter Leaving Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday May 11<\/p>\n<p>Once again, a friend sent me a poem. \u00a0Linda Paston is subtle, delicate, and surprising. \u00a0 I think you will like it.<\/p>\n<p>Middle of the week after commencement.<\/p>\n<p>blessings,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019 Post \u00a0Linda Paston \u00a0 <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linda_Pastan\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linda_Pastan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To A Daughter Leaving Home &#8211; Poem by Linda Pastan<\/p>\n<p>When I taught you<br \/>\nat eight to ride<br \/>\na bicycle, loping along<br \/>\nbeside you<br \/>\nas you wobbled away<br \/>\non two round wheels,<br \/>\nmy own mouth rounding<br \/>\nin surprise when you pulled<br \/>\nahead down the curved<br \/>\npath of the park,<br \/>\nI kept waiting<br \/>\nfor the thud<br \/>\nof your crash as I<br \/>\nsprinted to catch up,<br \/>\nwhile you grew<br \/>\nsmaller, more breakable<br \/>\nwith distance,<br \/>\npumping, pumping<br \/>\nfor your life, screaming<br \/>\nwith laughter,<br \/>\nthe hair flapping<br \/>\nbehind you like a<br \/>\nhandkerchief waving<br \/>\ngoodbye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/05\/LindaPastan.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1885\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1885 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/05\/LindaPastan.jpg\" alt=\"LindaPastan\" width=\"184\" height=\"186\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Linda Pastan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday May 11 Once again, a friend sent me a poem. \u00a0Linda Paston is subtle, delicate, and surprising. \u00a0 I think you will like it. Middle of the week after commencement. blessings, &nbsp; john sj Today\u2019 Post \u00a0Linda Paston \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/05\/18\/may-11-to-a-daughter-leaving-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}