{"id":371,"date":"1987-06-30T07:16:00","date_gmt":"1987-06-30T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:02:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:02:59","slug":"fire-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/06\/30\/fire-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within a dancing flame<br \/>\nA dancing god abounds;<br \/>\nA god of energy;<br \/>\nPurity;<br \/>\nLight.<\/p>\n<p>Both creating<br \/>\nAnd destroying;<br \/>\nBoth existing and not,<br \/>\nIn the duality of this existence.<\/p>\n<p>Creating earth by<br \/>\nDestroying wood.<\/p>\n<p>Fire, like god,<br \/>\nCan cause destruction;<br \/>\nLike a god,<br \/>\nFire can be used<br \/>\nTo enhance life:<br \/>\nTo make life easier.<\/p>\n<p>As god may,<br \/>\nFire may support life<br \/>\nThrough cold of winter;<\/p>\n<p>As god may,<br \/>\nFire may take a life.<\/p>\n<p>Fire in its constancy<br \/>\nOf change,<br \/>\nRearranges<br \/>\nAll it envelopes,<br \/>\nAs does a god.<\/p>\n<p>Is not fire,<br \/>\nLike a god<br \/>\nGod?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within a dancing flame<br \/> A dancing god abounds;<br \/> A god of energy;<br \/> Purity;<br \/> Light.<\/p>\n<p>Both creating<br \/> And destroying;<br \/> Both existing and not,<br \/> In the duality of this existence.<\/p>\n<p>Creating earth by<br \/> Destroying wood.<\/p>\n<p>Fire, like god,<br \/> Can cause destruction;<br \/> Like a god,<br \/> Fire can be used<br \/> To enhance [&#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-371","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\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}