{"id":1438,"date":"2000-09-05T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2000-09-06T02:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:28:19","slug":"canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2000\/09\/05\/canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds distant now,<br \/>\nand I know it is.<\/p>\n<p>For not too far away the water&#8217;s forces<br \/>\ncarve deeper the trench<br \/>\nthat is this canyon.<\/p>\n<p>I will travel that canyon<br \/>\nthat trench<br \/>\nthat river<\/p>\n<p>and face it as I face a life that<br \/>\nlays ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I know not what it will bring<br \/>\nbut the opportunities it affords<br \/>\nare too great to be<br \/>\nignored.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll face that challenge,<br \/>\nas have many others,<br \/>\nhoping to come out of it a different<br \/>\nperson,<br \/>\ndeepening my sense of the place<br \/>\nin which I find myself<br \/>\nin this universe.<\/p>\n<p>Not really knowing what<br \/>\nlies when &#8212; the names<br \/>\njust unfamiliar labels now,<br \/>\nshall eventually be a part of my being<br \/>\na part of who I am,<br \/>\nwho I might become.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind I run the river<br \/>\nas I have dreamt and thought<br \/>\nand wondered.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will awaken me with that new<br \/>\nchallenge, that new purpose<br \/>\nthat new life.<\/p>\n<p>And onward I will row.<br \/>\nOnward I will go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds distant now,<br \/> and I know it is.<\/p>\n<p>For not too far away the water&#8217;s forces<br \/> carve deeper the trench<br \/> that is this canyon.<\/p>\n<p>I will travel that canyon<br \/> that trench<br \/> that river<\/p>\n<p>and face it as I face a life that<br \/> lays ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I know not what it will bring<br \/> but [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-personal","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}