{"id":8716,"date":"2024-12-22T23:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T04:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2024-12-22T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T04:36:09","slug":"generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8717\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dog-and-girl-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dog-and-girl-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dog-and-girl.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>Ponytails and puppy dogs, and long summer days<\/h6>\n<h6>Storybooks and river brooks, children, at play\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Skinned knees and climbing trees, childhood now, just memories\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>But I remember mama\u2019s kisses on my cheek<\/h6>\n<h6>Bedtime prayers, and sibling\u2019s there, in a place called, Rocky Creek.<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>A mountain of tears was wiped away, in the dark, when mama prayed<\/h6>\n<h6><em>Now I lay me down to sleep, Father all my children keep, ever in your hands<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Bless their lives and when they\u2019re old, let all their memories be as precious as gold<\/em>\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Mama prayed and we all said, Amen.<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Walking slow, to and fro, this body can hardly go\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>But I\u2019m blessed beyond measure, for all of life\u2019s treasure<\/h6>\n<h6>Is seen in the little-uns faces\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Round and round the time-clock races\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>A new generation to bring\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee.<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill December 22, 2024<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ponytails and puppy dogs, and long summer days Storybooks and river brooks, children, at play\u2026 Skinned knees and climbing trees, childhood now, just memories\u2026 But I remember mama\u2019s kisses on my cheek Bedtime prayers, and sibling\u2019s there, in a place called, Rocky Creek. A mountain of tears was wiped away, in the dark, when mama&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-2gA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8719,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}