{"id":3709,"date":"2013-08-29T01:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2013-08-29T01:32:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:32:40","slug":"buggy-in-amish-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"Buggy in Amish Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road is uneven.<br \/>\nThe girth of time<br \/>\nbetween evening and daylight.<br \/>\nLife outbound or coming home,<br \/>\nthese black buggies of prayer,<br \/>\nof dedication,<br \/>\nof soil and sweat and family.<br \/>\nLife tipped by its tasks,<br \/>\nbut straight and strong.<br \/>\nWho holds the reins?<br \/>\nThe intense eyes following the road.<br \/>\nThe black and white of faith.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the farm<br \/>\nthat comes out of the earth ahead?<br \/>\nWhat is planted in the fields?<br \/>\nLove of the seasons.<br \/>\nThe fresh taste of water.<br \/>\nRain falling in the dusk.<br \/>\nA cocoon with the metamorphosis<br \/>\nof a heart inside it,<br \/>\nstruggling with the labor of existence,<br \/>\nand a goal in the spirit<br \/>\nthat looks at the fields.<\/p>\n<p>The buggy carries them,<br \/>\nsingly or together,<br \/>\nman, woman, child, or family.<br \/>\nJudge not the frail beauty<br \/>\nof the buggy,<br \/>\nbut the intent moving inside it,<br \/>\nand listen to its laughter,<br \/>\nand taste its tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road is uneven. The girth of time between evening and daylight. Life outbound or coming home, these black buggies of prayer, of dedication, of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3709\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buggy in Amish Country<\/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-3709","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\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}