{"id":552,"date":"2014-04-01T22:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2014-03-23T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:25:08","slug":"devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I had the fierce courage<br \/>\nof the Bedouin,<br \/>\nseeing a carpet of sand<br \/>\nconsume the vastness of the sky,<br \/>\nI would bow my head<br \/>\nto the sacrifice of God.<\/p>\n<p>To the heartbeats he put inside me.<br \/>\nThe oasis of thirst that he would know<br \/>\nin my problematic embrace of Him.<br \/>\nThat he could feel the sweetness<br \/>\nof my supreme devotion,<br \/>\nrising from my soul at birth,<br \/>\nconfronting the empty dunes<br \/>\nof the desert.<\/p>\n<p>I would put the flower of my humanity<br \/>\nin the sand,<br \/>\nand have the universe see the face<br \/>\nof my love uncrushed,<br \/>\nwith the infinite breath of agape<br \/>\nin my lungs,<br \/>\nwhere the psalms of God are sung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had the fierce courage of the Bedouin, seeing a carpet of sand consume the vastness of the sky, I would bow my head&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=552\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Devotion<\/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-552","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\/552","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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}