{"id":3276,"date":"2017-08-26T02:24:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T01:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:52:12","slug":"when-joy-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"When Joy Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes joy comes to me<br \/>\nand I ask,<br \/>\nJoy!   What brings you<br \/>\nto these parts?<br \/>\nI had a bad night last night.<br \/>\nI died and got lost<br \/>\ncrossing the River Styx.<br \/>\nThere was no compass,<br \/>\nand the stars stayed<br \/>\nbehind the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you were there,<br \/>\nand something said,<br \/>\nforgiveness shows the way,<br \/>\nand I was younger<br \/>\nthan the day before.<br \/>\nAnd I hadn\u2019t died<br \/>\nbecause the face of joy<br \/>\nis love,<br \/>\nwanting me to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes joy comes to me and I ask, Joy! What brings you to these parts? I had a bad night last night. I died and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3276\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Joy Comes<\/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-3276","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\/3276","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=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}