{"id":11982,"date":"2025-04-08T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/?p=11982"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:50:10","slug":"when-mommy-asked-are-you-home-i-wanted-to-say-yes-but-i-couldnt-%f0%9f%a5%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/archives\/11982","title":{"rendered":"When Mommy asked, \u201cAre you home?\u201d I wanted to say \u201cyes,\u201d but I couldn\u2019t.\ud83e\udd70"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='\"wp-block-group' has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained>\n<div class='\"entry-content' wp-block-post-content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-post-content-is-layout-constrained>\n<div class='\"code-block' code-block-2>\n<div data-type='\"_mgwidget\"' data-widget-id='\"1746493\"'>\n\n<p>My daughter\u2019s tiny fingers were digging into my uniform as I held her. Her damp curls stuck to her cheeks, smelling like sunscreen and juice. How much had I missed as she grew? My back sign crinkled as she shifted against me. You call her Soldier, I call her Mom.\u201d Swallowed hard. That title meant more to me than rank or medal. However, I wasn\u2019t sure how long I\u2019d have it.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-1>\n<div data-type='\"_mgwidget\"' data-widget-id='\"1746492\"'>\n\n<p>The house smelled like cinnamon and laundry. My mom\u2014her grandma\u2014held down the fort while I was deployed. Her eyes were gentle but guarded as she wiped her hands on a dish towel in the kitchen doorway. She knew. Her knowledge was constant.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>My daughter\u2019s tiny fingers were digging into my uniform as I held her. Her damp curls stuck to her cheeks, smelling like sunscreen and juice. How much had I missed &hellip; \n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11984,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions\/11984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>