{"id":1567,"date":"2014-04-14T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?page_id=1567"},"modified":"2014-05-02T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:49:27","slug":"x-the-patron-saint-of-disappointing-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?page_id=1567","title":{"rendered":"The Patron Saint of Disappointing Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1404\" alt=\"Louise de Marillac\" src=\"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/santa_luisa_de_marillac_e4.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am the child who will never be<br \/>\na disappointment to my mum and dad.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll sleep the night in my own bed,<br \/>\na smell of milk on my\u00a0crusted chin.<br \/>\nMy terrible twos will be a doddle.<br \/>\nThey won&#8217;t ever see a tantrum fit<br \/>\nor be called in by school reception.<br \/>\nParents\u2019 evenings will be pretty samey;<br \/>\na joy to teach, works well in class.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll never come in late or broken-hearted.<br \/>\nAnd when they lie together in the dark<br \/>\nand talk in muffled tones, I\u2019ll know<br \/>\nhe smoothes her eyelids with his thumb,<br \/>\nkisses her on the head and says<br \/>\nall credit for who I am goes to my mum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?page_id=1517\">&lt; Back to the Patron Saints<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>I am the child who will never be a disappointment to my mum and dad. I\u2019ll sleep the night in my own bed, a smell of milk on my crusted chin. My terrible twos will be a doddle. They won&#8217;t ever see a tantrum fit or be called in by school reception. Parents\u2019 evenings [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1567\/revisions\/1648"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}