{"id":1179,"date":"2015-11-22T20:12:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2015-11-22T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T01:12:31","slug":"prayers-of-the-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Prayers of the Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers of the Ghosts<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJennifer Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInside of this forest of skin and bone<br \/>\nThe autumn sun shines through the branches,<br \/>\nEvening breathes through the leaves,<br \/>\nDeer step from the center to the edges, silent as sunset,<br \/>\nA stream sculpts a pathway through the trees drawn by a waiting sea,<br \/>\nAn owl spreads her wings and glides over the marsh of my fears,<br \/>\nA mountain, full of sleeping momma bears, stands behind me, sturdy and steady,<br \/>\nThe moon sings through the crisp air spilling its song through the dancing ferns and whirling leaves,<br \/>\nGhosts pray in the darkness, spreading ancient hopes and beckoning for light,<br \/>\nWhile dreams rest on the ground, languished on the cushioned earth and tangled in roots,<br \/>\nWaiting for me to answer the prayers of the ghosts, and set them free, like<br \/>\nHandfuls of butterflies on a newly realized morning in a newly realized spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.217.43\" \/><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>&nbsp;<\/p>\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>Prayers of the Ghosts By Jennifer Angelina Petro &nbsp; &nbsp; Inside of this forest of skin and bone The autumn sun shines through the branches, Evening breathes through the leaves, Deer step from the center to the edges, silent as sunset, A stream sculpts a pathway through the trees drawn by a waiting sea, An [&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":[471,330,161,522,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}