{"id":2815,"date":"2023-11-12T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2023-11-12T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T15:56:35","slug":"wrestling-with-hope-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling with Hope, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling with Hope<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This ocean becomes a field,<br \/>\nthat woman dies with a brown<br \/>\nwool scapular of Mary in her hands,<br \/>\nthose tomato plants turn<br \/>\nspindly (that\u2019s my fault),<br \/>\nno one solves the koan<br \/>\nof the deathbed,<br \/>\nI\u2019m not sure what happens<br \/>\nto the big stories of the trees,<br \/>\nthose children in the school yard<br \/>\nbecome invincible to sorrow,<br \/>\npeople listening to the news<br \/>\nstarve a little more,<br \/>\neveryone becomes an echo<br \/>\nof everyone else, and the silence<br \/>\nthat follows holds<br \/>\nthe bragging rights<br \/>\nof most wanted,<br \/>\nthe new animals that appear<br \/>\nfrom the woods have no names,<br \/>\nand they intend to keep it that way,<br \/>\nevery winnowing basket breaks<br \/>\nsending both wheat and chaff into the wind,<br \/>\nthe sky turns into the world\u2019s<br \/>\nShroud of Turin.<br \/>\nHow do I know these things?<br \/>\nI cut across the future<br \/>\nand ended up here,<br \/>\nand there\u2019s so much more to tell&#8211;<br \/>\nso many things that will<br \/>\nbring joy to us all. But first&#8211;<br \/>\nI need to wrestle hope, I need to<br \/>\ntry to pin it down, and we will fight<br \/>\nto the bitter end, and you can guess who wins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling with Hope by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; This ocean becomes a field, that woman dies with a brown wool scapular of Mary in her hands, those tomato plants turn spindly (that\u2019s my fault), no one solves the koan of the deathbed, I\u2019m not sure what happens to the big stories of the trees, those [&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\/2815"}],"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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}