{"id":2718,"date":"2023-08-19T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2023-08-19T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:54:41","slug":"knock-on-all-the-doors-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"Knock on All the Doors, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knock On All the Doors<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Give me a number between one and ten.<br \/>\nClosest gets a ride on a tiger. Doors don\u2019t<br \/>\nfail to open. Some just don\u2019t want to open.<\/p>\n<p>Others don\u2019t trust your judgment,<br \/>\nbut railings are good on high, winding mountain<br \/>\nroads, and while some would say all roads<\/p>\n<p>lead to perdition, I think all roads lead<br \/>\nto gardens we\u2019ve yet to design,<br \/>\nand along the way we go from immaturity<\/p>\n<p>to maturity, and back again, and, anyway,<br \/>\nchildren lead Buddha by the nose, and he laughs<br \/>\nwith delight. So, go on\u2014pick a number,<\/p>\n<p>ride the tiger, knock on all the doors,<br \/>\nassert your existence, release the rebel<br \/>\nin you. Your breath abides everywhere,<\/p>\n<p>and anyway, when the past, present,<br \/>\nfuture, and you walk into a bar,<br \/>\nthe bartender\u2019s gonna ask: \u201cWhat\u2019ll it be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And they will look at one another and answer:<br \/>\n\u201cYes!\u201d Leaving you to order fried pickles,<br \/>\nand to begin making sketches of gardens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knock On All the Doors by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; &nbsp; Give me a number between one and ten. Closest gets a ride on a tiger. Doors don\u2019t fail to open. Some just don\u2019t want to open. Others don\u2019t trust your judgment, but railings are good on high, winding mountain roads, and while some would [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718"}],"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=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}