{"id":31,"date":"2026-09-24T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:46:19","slug":"dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Dad. (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">taking the scenic route<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">bad jokes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">excitement coming out as over-explaining<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Tolerance for my terrible twos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">reaching the tallest shelf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">rerouting to the lost and found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fixing the things you can\u2019t teach me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Coming all this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Believing in me when I chose to break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">just because I couldn\u2019t see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a little baby carrier strapped to your chest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">grown-up earmuffs over my tiny head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">blowing away those fallen leaves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so they don\u2019t smother the parking pavement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>taking the scenic route bad jokes excitement coming out as over-explaining Patience. Understanding. Tolerance for my terrible twos. reaching the tallest shelf rerouting to the lost and found fixing the things you can\u2019t teach me Coming all this way. Believing in me when I chose to break just because I couldn\u2019t see. a little baby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,29,30,4,5,42],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dad","tag-family","tag-memories","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-writer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}