{"id":2087,"date":"2016-11-06T01:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T00:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2016-11-07T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T15:38:37","slug":"bless-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"Bless the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is stronger?<br \/>\nDeath?<br \/>\nOr life rising from the sarcophagus<br \/>\nof the universe?<br \/>\nWho called it forth<br \/>\nfrom the dark atoms?<br \/>\nWho filled the emptiness<br \/>\nwith a blessing?<br \/>\nHow did the poem<br \/>\ncreate its words,<br \/>\nand say them in the darkness?<br \/>\nWho dares deny their miracle<br \/>\npuffed up with self importance?<\/p>\n<p>When they are simply beautiful.<br \/>\nWonderful.<br \/>\nLife congealed in a soul.<br \/>\nSaying,<br \/>\nno such thing could exist.<br \/>\nRoses without color.<br \/>\nChildren without parents.<br \/>\nWe know better,<br \/>\nto believe<br \/>\nthe God gene inside us.<br \/>\nWe hear it whisper,<br \/>\nlaughing and crying,<br \/>\nbless the children.<br \/>\nBless the children!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is stronger? Death? Or life rising from the sarcophagus of the universe? Who called it forth from the dark atoms? Who filled the emptiness&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2087\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bless the Children<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}