{"id":5342,"date":"2026-05-13T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:26:17","slug":"8-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/8-de-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"8 de Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mi madre ten\u00eda ojos de hechicera y alma de poeta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Por ella, hoy soy quien soy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trabaj\u00f3 muy duro para que en casa no faltara nada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El arte, la literatura y los museos eran su pasi\u00f3n; tambi\u00e9n la pizza y las cervezas bien fr\u00edas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muchos hombres la deseaban, pero ella eligi\u00f3 cuidar de sus hijas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amaba verla pintar, conversar con ella, verla sonre\u00edr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pod\u00eda iluminar una sala con solo su presencia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los libros y el arte son mi refugio, gracias a ella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Por ella escribo.<br>Gracias a ella. Gracias a su amor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ayer, 8 de Mayo, fue su cumplea\u00f1os.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Se lo celebr\u00e9 en un restaurante lleno de libros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Levant\u00e9 mi copa de vino y dije cu\u00e1nto la amaba&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cu\u00e1nto la admiro y la respeto&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEl m\u00e1s grande honor de mi vida fue venir de tu \u00fatero\u201d, dije al final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Se hizo un silencio. Beb\u00ed de mi copa mientras una l\u00e1grima corr\u00eda por mi rostro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Porque, un 8 de Mayo, tambi\u00e9n muri\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El c\u00e1ncer se la llev\u00f3, dejando atr\u00e1s sus rosas rojas de sangre en las s\u00e1banas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As\u00ed le habl\u00e9 a una silla vac\u00eda, convencida de que su esp\u00edritu me escuchaba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pero era mi coraz\u00f3n hablando en voz alta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Una carta a una madre ausente, una silla vac\u00eda y el amor que sigue celebrando aunque duela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[294,288,350,349,278,353,279,297,352,351],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relatos","tag-amor-materno","tag-ausencia","tag-carta","tag-cumpleanos","tag-duelo","tag-homenaje","tag-madre","tag-memoria","tag-raices","tag-silla-vacia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5343,"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlpetersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}