{"id":2510,"date":"2023-11-14T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2025-04-21T20:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:38:26","slug":"a-mothers-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/a-mothers-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aisha L. Kunting<\/p>\n<p><\/em>A glance at the clock as I notice the time,<br \/>\nhow late it is on a Friday and yet she is still at the office at 11:59?<br \/>\nNo doubt finishing a never-ending workload that is anything but light,<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u2018Has she eaten dinner yet?\u2019 I wonder again as the clock strikes midnight.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A knock on the door\u2014 only one person it could be.<br \/>\n<\/span>\u201cAssalamualaikum,\u201d she greets sweetly as soon as she sees me,<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">but it\u2019s impossible not to notice the tired and bloodshot eyes.<br \/>\n<\/span>Regardless, she smiles\u2014 which I\u2019ve come to know as one of her forms of disguise.<br \/>\nSo exhausted she doesn\u2019t bother to change out of her work clothes.<br \/>\nShe lays on the couch, surely tired from the workload.<br \/>\nBut despite the million other things occupying her brilliant mind,<br \/>\nShe asks, \u201cHow was your day, anak?\u201d<br \/>\nOnly I prayed yours was as happy as mine.<br \/>\nMothers deserve the world and more for all the things they have to endure.<br \/>\nDespite their flaws and imperfections, a mother\u2019s love remains pure.<br \/>\nSee, mothers don\u2019t work this hard just to earn money and spend it on themselves.<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t stay up at night burning the oil just to afford expensive hotels.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t wake up early and cook for the family because they are forced or compelled\u2014<br \/>\nthese amazing mothers sacrifice their time to keep their families fed and well.<br \/>\nWorking hard for the trials of today despite the uncertainty of tomorrow.<br \/>\nBearing the aches that come with life to spare her family from sorrows.<br \/>\nThere is no way to properly describe all her pains,<br \/>\nand no words will be big enough to even begin my thanks.<br \/>\nA mother\u2019s time is precious\u2014 precious as a diamond in a bed of sand.<br \/>\nI would give up all my fleeting time just to hold her motherly hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aisha L. Kunting A glance at the clock as I notice the time, how late it is on a Friday and yet she is still at the office at 11:59? No doubt finishing a never-ending workload that is anything but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/a-mothers-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}