{"id":3382,"date":"2010-12-30T20:20:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2010-12-30T20:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:20:58","slug":"babies-dont-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=3382","title":{"rendered":"Babies Don&#8217;t Keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><quote>Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,<br \/>\nEmpty the dustpan, poison the moth,<br \/>\nHang out the washing, make up the bed,<br \/>\nSew on a button and butter the bread.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?<br \/>\nShe\u2019s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I\u2019ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,<br \/>\nLullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.<br \/>\nDishes are waiting and bills are past due<br \/>\nPat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo<\/p>\n<p>The shopping\u2019s not done and there\u2019s nothing for stew<br \/>\nAnd out in the yard there\u2019s a hullabaloo<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m playing Kanga and this is my Roo<br \/>\nLook! Aren\u2019t his eyes the most wonderful hue?<br \/>\nLullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.<\/p>\n<p>The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow<br \/>\nBut children grow up as I\u2019ve learned to my sorrow.<br \/>\nSo quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!<br \/>\nI\u2019m rocking my baby and babies don\u2019t keep. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ruth Hulburt Hamilton<\/quote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth, Empty the dustpan, poison the moth, Hang out the washing, make up the bed, Sew on a button and butter the bread. Where is the mother whose house is so shocking? She\u2019s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking. Oh, I\u2019ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}