{"id":1079,"date":"1989-04-25T14:40:03","date_gmt":"1989-04-25T21:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2012-09-29T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T21:41:02","slug":"green-pastures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1989\/04\/25\/green-pastures\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Pastures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I walk in death&#8217;s green pastures,<br \/>\nMy downtrodden paths lead not to the bright waters;<br \/>\nThe waters bright with reflections that I would see,<br \/>\nBut dare not face.<\/p>\n<p>Reflections of a self that was not selfless<br \/>\nA self with more than pastures for the taking:<br \/>\nPastures for dispersion among the flock.<\/p>\n<p>I continue through the pastures with the flock<br \/>\nSeeking that something that I dare not face.<br \/>\nUntil that selfless reflection can be faced by me<br \/>\nThe bright waters shall not be bright to me,<br \/>\nAnd I shall remain the flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I walk in death&#8217;s green pastures,<br \/> My downtrodden paths lead not to the bright waters;<br \/> The waters bright with reflections that I would see,<br \/> But dare not face.<\/p>\n<p>Reflections of a self that was not selfless<br \/> A self with more than pastures for the taking:<br \/> Pastures for dispersion among the flock.<\/p>\n<p>I continue through [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}