{"id":12034,"date":"2014-05-11T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=12034"},"modified":"2014-05-10T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T14:18:05","slug":"a-special-poem-in-honor-of-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=12034","title":{"rendered":"A special poem in honor of Mothers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>A happy Mothers Day to all!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>By Kelly Hockenberry<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Columnist, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/UTKellyColumn-copy-250x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-785023\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/UTKellyColumn-copy-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"UTKellyColumn copy\" width=\"175\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> Our Kelly Hockenberry takes a break from her usual prose style and shares her obvious skills as a poet and this week, diverts a bit from her usual column in honor of Mothers Day. To all of the the moms out there &#8212; especially those nearest and dearest to The Times family, we wish a very happy Mothers Day.<!--more--><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Mother&#8217;s Day dawns so bright &amp; blue<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>To celebrate with full hearts all that we do:<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the cooking<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the cleaning<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the laundry<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the screaming<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the scrubbing &amp; spit-shine<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the wiping of be-hinds<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the lunches<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the car pool<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the PTO at pre-school<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the vacuum<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the Clorox<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>(reward thee with Botox)<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the schedules<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the referee<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>the band-aid for a skinned knee<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>We&#8217;re weary and leery and often quite tear-y<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>but life as a Mom, while not easy &#8217;tis true,<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>is richer than rich\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>and all &#8217;cause of you!<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Mommy loves you Jared &amp; Wyatt. Thankful you are mine. xoxo<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A happy Mothers Day to all! By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times Editor&#8217;s Note: Our Kelly Hockenberry takes a break from her usual prose style and shares her obvious skills as a poet and this week, diverts a bit from her usual column in honor of Mothers Day. To all of the the moms out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[338,619,352],"class_list":["post-12034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-featured","tag-holiday","tag-mothers-day","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}