{"id":574,"date":"2007-04-06T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=574"},"modified":"2007-04-06T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T21:25:31","slug":"poetry-friday-i-cant-help-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: I can’t help myself."},"content":{"rendered":"

{Note: Today’s Poetry Friday round-up is here<\/a><\/strong> at Big A, little a} . . . <\/em><\/p>\n

I’m still grooving on my new nephew. So I’m sharing a poem about how a baby can totally change your center of gravity: Only Child<\/a><\/strong> by D. Nurkse<\/a><\/strong>. Here’s an excerpt.<\/p>\n

Always we passed the seesaw
\non the way to the swings
\nbut tonight I remember
\nthe principle of the lever,
\nI sit the child at one end,
\nI sit near the center,
\nthe fulcrum, at once she has power
\nto lift me off the earth
\nand keep me suspended
\nby her tiny weight, she laughing,
\nI stunned at the power of the formula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

And because I really, truly can’t help myself, here’s another picture of Miles:<\/p>\n

\"Miles<\/p>\n

Did you know they even MADE jeans this small???<\/p>\n

And those little feet! In little striped tube socks, even!<\/p>\n

Can you stand it???\u00a0 Can you stand the cuteness???<\/p>\n

I mean, I can’t. Every new picture I get is like an actual, serious, physical pain, a paroxysm of cuteness.<\/p>\n

Please tell me when I start to get annoying.<\/p>\n

Not that it will stop me. But tell me. Please?<\/p>\n

Okay, thanks.<\/p>\n

And thanks for indulging me.<\/p>\n

You can go read the poem<\/strong><\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Note: Today’s Poetry Friday round-up is here at Big A, little a} . . . I’m still grooving on my new nephew. So I’m sharing a poem about how a baby can totally change your center of gravity: Only Child by D. Nurkse. Here’s an excerpt. Always we passed the seesaw on the way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}