{"id":75,"date":"1984-12-28T08:43:49","date_gmt":"1984-12-28T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:14:19","slug":"child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1984\/12\/28\/child\/","title":{"rendered":"Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are a child and yours is;<br \/>\nYou are the one; yours will be.<br \/>\nOnly you receive whate&#8217;er you gave;<br \/>\nNow you learn to give and get.<br \/>\nA child of a promised land?<br \/>\nOr a promise of a childish stand<br \/>\nFor you are the one; yours will be<br \/>\nIn time returned, the will of He:<br \/>\nThe will of One, remember?<br \/>\nBut toiling on sojourned path,<br \/>\nTrail of decisions made, the task,<br \/>\nNot meant at all in any way<br \/>\nTo hinder, but to bloom and grow &#8211;<br \/>\nThe blossoming Light to kindle.<br \/>\nWherefore stopp&#8217;st though, stoppest me;<br \/>\nI am a child and can see<br \/>\nJust a promise made to myself<br \/>\nIn time when all things begot.<br \/>\nSuch as whom dare being this way &#8211;<br \/>\nBeing and living &#8211; no attempt to stay<br \/>\nWithin realms of Glory, or as it were,<br \/>\nThe realms of Self &#8211; uninhibited;<br \/>\nThese shall (as they are yet to learn)<br \/>\nReceive all they&#8217;ve given, and return:<br \/>\nNothing&#8217;s left that doesn&#8217;t stay.<br \/>\nDry, the blossom crumbles, unopened.<br \/>\nSolipsistic though, you child, seem,<br \/>\nNo time is spared in all your dreams<br \/>\nFor the countenance unduly smote<br \/>\nWith raw physical obsession.<br \/>\nSo you are the one, don&#8217;t you now see?<br \/>\nThe only one, and yours alone shall be<br \/>\nAll you answer to, or for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are a child and yours is;<br \/> You are the one; yours will be.<br \/> Only you receive whate&#8217;er you gave;<br \/> Now you learn to give and get.<br \/> A child of a promised land?<br \/> Or a promise of a childish stand<br \/> For you are the one; yours will be<br \/> In time returned, the will [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}