{"id":1015,"date":"2015-05-10T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2015-06-08T22:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:16:04","slug":"the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bridge<br \/>\n<em>To Fane<\/em><br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThere is a bridge to cross<br \/>\nWhere afar afield<br \/>\nPeople have found a way<br \/>\nTo live with relative ease<br \/>\nWith themselves and others,<br \/>\nAnd now have formed<br \/>\nA welcoming committee<br \/>\nEager to widen the circle.<br \/>\nLooking over the span<br \/>\nOf space and time<br \/>\nThat spreads between<br \/>\nWhere they dance<br \/>\nAnd where I stand,<br \/>\nI reach out&#8211;<br \/>\nTheir dancing turns<br \/>\nInto rejoicing&#8211;<br \/>\nI take a step a far<br \/>\nAfield and their dancing<br \/>\nTurns into a festival&#8211;<br \/>\nAnd they are singing my name<br \/>\nAnd they are moving as close<br \/>\nAs they possibly can<br \/>\nLeaving me the dignity<br \/>\nTo cross on my own, to stumble<br \/>\nAnd allow my stumblings<br \/>\nTo become dancing,<br \/>\nAnd their singing<br \/>\nGives me wings,<br \/>\nAnd their dancing<br \/>\nGives me strength,<br \/>\nAnd their very presence&#8211;<br \/>\nThe very fact of their desire<br \/>\nTo help and to welcome and to share&#8211;<br \/>\nThe very fact that they can even see me<br \/>\nFrom so far away,<br \/>\nAnd love what they see&#8211;<br \/>\nIs enough today<br \/>\nTo help me get up,<br \/>\nStep away from my own shadow,<br \/>\nAnd keep walking, and so, to dance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.163\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Donations help with afford therapy and to keep the WB online.\u00a0 Thank you.<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"F4CK35BRFLT4Y\" \/><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bridge To Fane By Joseph Anthony Petro &nbsp; There is a bridge to cross Where afar afield People have found a way To live with relative ease With themselves and others, And now have formed A welcoming committee Eager to widen the circle. Looking over the span Of space and time That spreads between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[101,407,109,69,408,406,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}