{"id":2793,"date":"2022-05-08T20:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2022-05-09T01:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T01:07:43","slug":"the-howl-of-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"The Howl of Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN1192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN1192-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2794\" width=\"439\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN1192-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN1192-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN1192-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN1192-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN1192.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We all came from mothers: we have something in common.<br \/>Our first act almost unspeakable\u00a0<br \/>hurtling towards bright lights, causing our Other shrieking pain.<br \/>Mothers let us off the hook \u2014\u00a0<br \/>it wasn\u2019t really our fault \u2014<br \/>the pea-green stuff was cleared off, we sucked from the core of the earth, <br \/>nestled, smiled,\u00a0were cutely dressed, learned the Hula hoop, read Nietzsche,\u00a0<br \/>or learned to shoot, worked EMT\u00a0<br \/>or spent years shooting hoops, opened a laundry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How ridiculous the way life steps in to scatter one ur-motherhood story<br \/>it cannot be mastered<br \/>as every \u201cbirth plan\u201d and over-imposition will veer off course<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let each birth be<br \/>or not &nbsp;<br \/>as it wants&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all came from mothers: we have something in common.Our first act almost unspeakable\u00a0hurtling towards bright lights, causing our Other shrieking pain.Mothers let us off the hook \u2014\u00a0it wasn\u2019t really our fault \u2014the pea-green stuff was cleared off, we sucked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-J3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}