{"id":48,"date":"2006-07-20T17:48:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T21:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panfletonegro.com\/v\/2006\/07\/20\/tube-baby\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T21:48:16","slug":"tube-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/2006\/07\/20\/tube-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written a day before her 1st ectopic pregnancy, not her second one. Unbelievably enough, after that, a miscarriage and a failed IVF attempt&#8230;She still has loads of faith and laughter.)<\/p>\n<p>Sitting here, legs up, coughing hope.<br \/>\nAt times I rub my belly, as silently, with thoughts<br \/>\nI talk to the child I\u2019m bearing.<br \/>\nEverywhere I look there is a happy kid,<br \/>\nNot mine; mine is not yet happy;<br \/>\nmine is not yet mine.<\/p>\n<p>I reach to the Saints, to the Lord, and the Virgin Mary.<br \/>\nPromises are made in exchange for a life saved.<br \/>\nNothing is worst than impatience<br \/>\nand the agony of the wait.<\/p>\n<p>The unknown eats away every waking hour<br \/>\npaving the way to anxiety.<br \/>\nObviously, we want no pain in our souls;<br \/>\nNo heartbreak is best, no tears, no lost hope.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt there is a woman out there<br \/>\nmore ready than me.<br \/>\nI want this baby with a passion<br \/>\nand am not giving hope just yet.<\/p>\n<p>With one sentence<br \/>\nI will be blessed with life again.<br \/>\nWith one phone call I may smile sincerely.<br \/>\nDuring the eternal linger,<br \/>\ntorturing seconds become a time for prayer.<\/p>\n<p>A candle has been burning for days<br \/>\nAnd at points, it\u2019s the only light I see.<br \/>\nI\u2019m rescuing my shattered hope<br \/>\nwith a soul sitting on the edge\u2026<br \/>\nterrified of heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written a day before her 1st ectopic pregnancy, not her second one. Unbelievably enough, after that, a miscarriage and a failed IVF attempt&#8230;She still has loads of faith and laughter.) Sitting here, legs up, coughing hope. At times I rub my belly, as silently, with thoughts I talk to the child I\u2019m bearing. Everywhere I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-azares"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpCD-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panfletonegro.com\/v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}