{"id":1080,"date":"2021-08-22T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2021-08-22T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T06:46:13","slug":"even-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/08\/22\/even-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Even a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/margaret-weir-iWr3xT8C6L4-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/margaret-weir-iWr3xT8C6L4-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/margaret-weir-iWr3xT8C6L4-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/margaret-weir-iWr3xT8C6L4-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Even a Child<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Family camp-out<br \/>\nand I\u2019m mildly<br \/>\npeeved<br \/>\nthat my air mattress<br \/>\nleaked last night<br \/>\nand left<br \/>\nhardpan and stone<br \/>\nas Nature\u2019s bedding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Night two,<br \/>\nmattress repaired<br \/>\nand airtight,<br \/>\nbut at midnight,<br \/>\nfrom grandsons\u2019 tent,<br \/>\ncheek-by-jowl<br \/>\nwith ours,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">the five-year-old<br \/>\nshrieks,<br \/>\nterrified or angry<br \/>\nor both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I confess:<br \/>\nWere I the parent<br \/>\nI may have<br \/>\nshamed him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cShush, you\u2019re<br \/>\nwaking everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But his wiser<br \/>\nmother<br \/>\nsoothes and comforts<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nthe eight-year-old<br \/>\nwho, the day before,<br \/>\nannounced he<br \/>\nwas feeling<br \/>\n\u201clove for everything,\u201d<br \/>\nasks his<br \/>\nyounger brother,<br \/>\n\u201cDid you have<br \/>\na nightmare?\u201d<br \/>\nWhich the youngest<br \/>\nsomehow knows<br \/>\nis a cue to<br \/>\nlaugh,<br \/>\nwhich he does,<br \/>\nsaying,<br \/>\n\u201cyou have no idea,\u201d<br \/>\nand giggles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I cherish<br \/>\nbeing taught<br \/>\nhow<br \/>\neven a child<br \/>\nshall lead them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Margaret Weir; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Even a Child Family camp-out and I\u2019m mildly peeved that my air mattress leaked last night and left hardpan and stone as Nature\u2019s bedding. Night two, mattress repaired and airtight, but at midnight, from grandsons\u2019 tent, cheek-by-jowl with ours, the five-year-old shrieks, terrified or angry or both. I confess: Were I the parent I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}