{"id":771,"date":"2020-08-22T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2020-08-22T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:10:20","slug":"footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/footsteps\/","title":{"rendered":"Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s a poem I wrote recently that I thought I\u2019d share with you.\u00a0 I hope you like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past my room in the morning I hear them all tread,<br>Their footsteps a story replays in my head.<br>He came into my life with a confident stride,<br>A few years later I would become his bride.<br>Not long after and to make life complete,<br>Came the endearing patter of tiny feet.<br>The first born was confident, bold and defiant;<br>The second more timid and less self-reliant;<br>The third came out kicking but now is so gentle;<br>The fourth\u2019s stomping step could drive anyone mental;<br>The fifth, well she pirouetted onto the scene,<br>Outnumbered by boys who can sometimes be mean.<br>As I lie here and listen as they pass by on tiles,<br>Their distinctive footsteps bring me nothing but smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/08\/mcarthur-kids-2008.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"774\" data-link=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/mcarthur-kids-2008\/\" class=\"wp-image-774\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/08\/mcarthurs-2016.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"775\" data-link=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/mcarthurs-2016\/\" class=\"wp-image-775\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/08\/mcarthurs-2017.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"777\" data-link=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/mcarthurs-2017\/\" class=\"wp-image-777\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/08\/mcarthur-kids-2018.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"778\" data-link=\"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/mcarthur-kids-2018\/\" class=\"wp-image-778\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a poem I wrote recently that I thought I\u2019d share with you.\u00a0 I hope you like it. Past my room in the morning I hear them all tread,Their footsteps a story replays in my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}