{"id":3058,"date":"2013-02-16T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2013-02-16T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T16:02:34","slug":"we-joy-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"We Joy Sing*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circle of children.<br \/>\nMothers,<br \/>\nclapping to the beat<br \/>\nof a rhyme,<br \/>\nand a song,<br \/>\nflitting from throat to throat,<br \/>\nimmaculate sound.<\/p>\n<p>I open my wings,<br \/>\nslowly,<br \/>\nin the garden of innocence.<br \/>\nReturn,<br \/>\nfrom the sleep of river<br \/>\ncountries,<br \/>\nforeign and strange.<br \/>\nI rejoin my people.<br \/>\nThe souls of the mothers.<br \/>\nOpen trees<br \/>\ngrowing in the sky.<br \/>\nOpen flowers<br \/>\nreceiving me.<\/p>\n<p>I am joy,<br \/>\nI sing.<br \/>\nI walk on grass<br \/>\nand hold water in my hands.<br \/>\nWe are a tribe of light,<br \/>\na house of color.<br \/>\nI rise dancing and singing<br \/>\nfrom the earth.<br \/>\nJubilation of JOY!<\/p>\n<p>*An early childhood music education program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circle of children. Mothers, clapping to the beat of a rhyme, and a song, flitting from throat to throat, immaculate sound. I open my wings,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3058\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Joy Sing*<\/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-3058","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\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}