{"id":365,"date":"1987-06-23T01:22:05","date_gmt":"1987-06-23T08:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:03:14","slug":"mountain-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/06\/23\/mountain-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with a god,<br \/>\nOne&#8217;s self may be left at ease<br \/>\nExperiencing the majestic<br \/>\nUntamed beauty of the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Like a god, a mountain<br \/>\nMay force man to<br \/>\nTransend the limits<br \/>\nImposed on man by man;<br \/>\nMay open to the man<br \/>\nHeights never before<br \/>\nDreamed of;<br \/>\nMay release within the man<br \/>\nExperience only before<br \/>\nThought of; but never<br \/>\nExperienced.<\/p>\n<p>A mountain, like a god,<br \/>\nDemands respect;<br \/>\nDemands knowledge;<br \/>\nDemands preparedness.<br \/>\nIt requires not blind faith,<br \/>\nBut true knowledge,<br \/>\nFor within every nook<br \/>\nEvery crag and every<br \/>\nCranny, potential death<br \/>\nAwaits.<\/p>\n<p>Like a god, a mountain<br \/>\nForces one to come to one&#8217;s<br \/>\nOwn terms within one&#8217;s self;<br \/>\nLike a god, a mountain<br \/>\nLooks down on man without<br \/>\nCondescension; without<br \/>\nRidiculing man&#8217;s seeming puniness.<br \/>\nFor, like a god,<br \/>\nA mountain knows that man<br \/>\nWithin man renders the mountain<br \/>\nItself insignificant.<br \/>\nFor, like a god,<br \/>\nA mountain knows that man<br \/>\nWithin man is a god.<\/p>\n<p>Is not too,<br \/>\nLike a man or a god,<br \/>\nThe mountain<br \/>\nGod?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with a god,<br \/> One&#8217;s self may be left at ease<br \/> Experiencing the majestic<br \/> Untamed beauty of the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Like a god, a mountain<br \/> May force man to<br \/> Transend the limits<br \/> Imposed on man by man;<br \/> May open to the man<br \/> Heights never before<br \/> Dreamed of;<br \/> May release within the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}