{"id":1447,"date":"2000-09-26T19:50:39","date_gmt":"2000-09-27T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:51:55","slug":"oh-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2000\/09\/26\/oh-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are waves that do not move,<br \/>\nthe waters passing through them<br \/>\nI would ride;<br \/>\nTake me, but allow me to survive,<br \/>\nand in surviving my soul can come alive.<\/p>\n<p>Oh river bathe me,<br \/>\nsave me,<br \/>\nmake me realize what I can be!<\/p>\n<p>Oh river heal me,<br \/>\nsteal me,<br \/>\nleave me feeling who I am.<\/p>\n<p>Oh river don&#8217;t break me,<br \/>\nmake me,<br \/>\ntake me to where I am.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen a wave that didn&#8217;t move;<br \/>\nthe water passing through it<br \/>\nI had ridden,<br \/>\nand it brought me here to this place;<br \/>\nmy soul has come alive.<\/p>\n<p>And in the journey&#8217;s epitaph<br \/>\nI row away again,<br \/>\nfor the end of one river&#8217;s journey is<br \/>\nwhere the rest of my life begins.<\/p>\n<p>Oh river cleanse me,<br \/>\nmend me,<br \/>\nlet me see what I can be!<\/p>\n<p>Oh river enrich me,<br \/>\nfix me,<br \/>\nfor I am a broken man.<\/p>\n<p>Oh river don&#8217;t tease me,<br \/>\nplease me,<br \/>\nfor I know not who I am.<\/p>\n<p>And on that wave that didn&#8217;t move,<br \/>\nThe water rushing through it<br \/>\nI once rode,<br \/>\nAnd it freed me from all the inhibitions<br \/>\nOf myself that I had ever known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are waves that do not move,<br \/> the waters passing through them<br \/> I would ride;<br \/> Take me, but allow me to survive,<br \/> and in surviving my soul can come alive.<\/p>\n<p>Oh river bathe me,<br \/> save me,<br \/> make me realize what I can be!<\/p>\n<p>Oh river heal me,<br \/> steal me,<br \/> leave me feeling [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,1,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-nature","category-poems","category-rivers","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}