{"id":1048,"date":"2015-07-04T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2015-07-04T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T15:30:36","slug":"listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSilence<br \/>\nWe all know<br \/>\nYou will be the last one standing.<\/p>\n<p>After all the fires and floods<br \/>\nYou will step out from the ruins<br \/>\nAnd take your rightful place<br \/>\nAt the center of all things.<\/p>\n<p>How can we redeem ourselves now<br \/>\nSo that you will not swallow us up into your endless belly?<br \/>\nIs there a way you can unfold yourself now<br \/>\nSo that when the time comes for our souls<br \/>\nTo thaw and to lift, we won\u2019t be so afraid when you call our names?<br \/>\nIs there a way of touching you now<br \/>\nSo that when you drape us in your arms<br \/>\nYour embrace won\u2019t feel so cold and foreign?<br \/>\nIs there a way, Silence, of getting to know you now<br \/>\nSo that when the softening comes,<br \/>\nAnd the rendering, we won\u2019t be so afraid<br \/>\nThat we beg to be born again?<\/p>\n<p>With all of our distractions and means<br \/>\nOf avoiding you we know we fear the thing<br \/>\nWe want the most.<\/p>\n<p>So please<br \/>\nSpeak through us now so that we may learn<br \/>\nYour language, sing through us now<br \/>\nSo that we may learn your melody,<br \/>\nMove through us now so that when our steps distill into dancing<br \/>\nWe will fall joyfully into the feathers<br \/>\nOf your waiting and terrible wings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.217.81\" \/><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<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"F4CK35BRFLT4Y\" \/><br \/>\n<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>Listen By Joseph Anthony &nbsp; &nbsp; Silence We all know You will be the last one standing. After all the fires and floods You will step out from the ruins And take your rightful place At the center of all things. How can we redeem ourselves now So that you will not swallow us up [&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":[171,426,429,428,427,833,424,172,390,425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"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=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}