{"id":2994,"date":"2013-01-18T19:58:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2013-01-18T19:58:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T18:58:56","slug":"faith-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2994","title":{"rendered":"Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much doubt in me.<br \/>\nI doubt the sky<br \/>\nbecause it rises while I fall.<br \/>\nIt flames with fire<br \/>\nwhile I freeze.<br \/>\nI doubt the altar of wood and flowers<br \/>\nbecause no story should be that sad,<br \/>\nno such goodness murdered.<\/p>\n<p>It never happened in my country,<br \/>\nwhere I walked,<br \/>\nshared fellowship with others.<br \/>\nIt never happened<br \/>\nbecause there is no grief that great,<br \/>\njoy perhaps,<br \/>\nbut I asked how could that happen?<br \/>\nIt can\u2019t!<\/p>\n<p>My hand made a shadow on the wall,<br \/>\nlike a spider crawling to the floor,<br \/>\nand I insisted,<br \/>\nit never happened!<br \/>\nThe shadow detached itself from my hand<br \/>\nand flew through the window<br \/>\nlike a ghost.<\/p>\n<p>I waved my arm,<br \/>\nand questioned what was<br \/>\ncurled up inside me<br \/>\nthat disappeared?<br \/>\nHow light my heart became!<br \/>\nWas faith stronger than any evil<br \/>\nit confronts?<br \/>\nWas a prayer inside me<br \/>\nanswered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much doubt in me. I doubt the sky because it rises while I fall. It flames with fire while I freeze. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2994\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faith<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2994","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\/2994","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=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}