{"id":1330,"date":"2013-06-17T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:56:52","slug":"our-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Our First Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/images1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1331\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/images1-250x177.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Our First Meeting<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>She closed her perfect hand<br \/>Around my index finger.<br \/>alert, content,<br \/>listening to the familiar beat<br \/>Of her mum\u2019s heart<br \/>And forever after, in mine.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>She looked at me and smiled.<br \/>Eyes,\u00a0 mouth and cheeks<br \/>in perfect harmony.<br \/>Melting my heart like snowflakes<br \/>On an un-gloved hand<br \/>And I was smitten.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>I held\u00a0 her in my arms<br \/>Scared, awkward, and clumsily<br \/>cradling\u00a0 her tiny form:<br \/>One perfect moment in a timeless<br \/>bubble in my memory<br \/>Changing my life forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>by John Black<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>UK<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}