{"id":685,"date":"2018-11-02T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=685"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:56:35","slug":"making-poppies-with-pa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=685","title":{"rendered":"Making Poppies with Pa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>for ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/A9C75CB9-0E5C-4678-A7F6-0D5C0AEB9A23_1_201_a.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/A9C75CB9-0E5C-4678-A7F6-0D5C0AEB9A23_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1424\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>I traced the outline:<br \/>five<br \/>perfect <br \/>petals<br \/>on the shiny metal sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Pa used the tin snips<br \/><em>snip <br \/>snip <br \/>snip<\/em><br \/>to carefully cut the shape.<\/p>\n<p>Together we hammered the petals up<br \/>one<br \/>at <br \/>a <br \/>time.<\/p>\n<p>Then I sprayed<br \/>a single puff of black<br \/>into the centre<br \/>of the flower.<br \/><em>pffff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pa attached <br \/>the <br \/>long<br \/>wire <br \/>stem.<\/p>\n<p>But when I carried our poppy <br \/>outside<br \/>and proudly placed it<br \/>in the new-turned dirt,<br \/>Pa began to cry.<\/p>\n<p>He knelt down <br \/>so I could hug him tight,<br \/>then whispered through his tears,<br \/>\u201cI hope you never truly know<br \/>what this means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2018<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day I traced the outline:fiveperfect petalson the shiny metal sheet. Pa used the tin snipssnip snip snipto carefully cut the shape. Together we hammered the petals uponeat a time. Then I sprayeda single puff of blackinto the centreof the flower.pffff Pa attached the longwire stem. But when I carried our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":479,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-685","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions\/1431"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}