{"id":524,"date":"2017-02-07T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:45:12","slug":"jessica-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it came time during my first marriage to think about having children, I decided in my mind that I wanted all boys. Having grown up a tomboy, and being a hunting and fishing enthusiast &#8211; and never a ribbons and bows girlie girl &#8211; it just made sense to me that I would be better at &#8211; and have more fun &#8211; raising sons.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the way, after two handsome and amazing sons were born to me, my poetic heart chose to express some thoughts on what a girl child of mine would have been like, had God had a different idea about the gender of my children.<\/p>\n<p>There have been those over the years who have asked me whether Jessica Rose was a miscarried pre-born child, and she was not. She is a wistful figment of my imagination, and\u00a0only God\u00a0knows where the poem originated. Had there been a girl child born to me, her name would have been Jessica Rose &#8211; the Rose being for my Grandma Rose Hedberg (who was an &#8220;adopted&#8221; grandmother-of-the-heart and not a relative). Jessica would have been shortened for daily use to Jessy &#8211; and she would have been Jessy Rose!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-526\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JessicaRose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JessicaRose.jpg\" alt=\"Gretchen Slinker Jones poetry\" width=\"437\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JessicaRose.jpg 437w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JessicaRose-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it came time during my first marriage to think about having children, I decided in my mind that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=524\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jessica Rose<\/span><\/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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[68,67,69],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songheart","tag-christian-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-song-of-the-heart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}