{"id":2292,"date":"2016-11-28T01:39:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2016-12-13T01:31:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:31:55","slug":"the-child-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"The Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of wedlock a child will come.<br \/>\nA mother stricken by her daughter\u2019s misfortune,<br \/>\nalone and accursed.<br \/>\nI give my heart to the mother<br \/>\nof the mother.<br \/>\nThat she be at peace.<br \/>\nThat her grandchild<br \/>\ncome into an accepting world.<br \/>\nThat she remember the interregnum<br \/>\nended by a birth.<\/p>\n<p>The faith of her religion.<br \/>\nA prophet bringing love.<br \/>\nA god if you choose.<br \/>\nThat love is an imperative<br \/>\nstronger than death.<br \/>\nThat the young bear the children<br \/>\nof our race in innocence.<br \/>\nPeace on earth if a child is wanted.<br \/>\nPeace on earth if a child is loved.<br \/>\nPeace on earth if innocence<br \/>\nis not called sin.<\/p>\n<p>Then let life go on.<br \/>\nLet wisdom grow in the girl<br \/>\nlike the child.<br \/>\nLet hope swell in her heart,<br \/>\nand do not be surprised<br \/>\nby the entrance of purity.<br \/>\nThe coming of the wise.<br \/>\nIt happens all the time.<br \/>\nGenesis and birth,<br \/>\nand a child,<br \/>\ndelivered to your arms<br \/>\nfrom the hands of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of wedlock a child will come. A mother stricken by her daughter\u2019s misfortune, alone and accursed. I give my heart to the mother of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2292\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Child<\/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-2292","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\/2292","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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}