{"id":252,"date":"2016-07-10T01:04:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T00:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2016-07-04T02:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:33:49","slug":"homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it is not a good thing<br \/>\nto say what a man should be,<br \/>\nor a woman should be.<br \/>\nGenesis is a beginning, not an end.<\/p>\n<p>Within the soul there is a true place.<br \/>\nIt is what shape our hands must be<br \/>\nto reach and grasp,<br \/>\nto create and destroy,<br \/>\nplant and reap.<\/p>\n<p>Love is an extraordinary force,<br \/>\na delicate dream.<br \/>\nLife does not accept our dying.<br \/>\nSomething of our ashes must remain,<br \/>\na child, a book, a song.<\/p>\n<p>Woman who loves woman,<br \/>\nman who loves man,<br \/>\nor the polarity between,<br \/>\nmust follow their river<br \/>\nand touch the face next to them<br \/>\nin happiness.<\/p>\n<p>The world should not put tears between them.<br \/>\nThere is enough tragedy for all.<br \/>\nNot enough love in equal shares.<br \/>\nIn the end we cannot control our fate,<br \/>\nbut to the children of love,<br \/>\ncharity must allow no regrets<br \/>\nfor having lived and loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it is not a good thing to say what a man should be, or a woman should be. Genesis is a beginning, not an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=252\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homosexuality<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","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\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}