{"id":2832,"date":"2023-11-26T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2023-11-26T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:37:18","slug":"today-i-saw-a-snail-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2832","title":{"rendered":"Today I Saw a Snail, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I Saw a Snail<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walking the Lavender Trails<br \/>\nup to the Andorra Meadow Loop,<br \/>\numbrella poplars broadening the day,<br \/>\nI grow accustomed to soft sounds,<br \/>\nand no sounds, and sounds that enter<br \/>\nmy soul-shaped body.<\/p>\n<p>Today,<\/p>\n<p>chaos isn\u2019t hounding my heels,<br \/>\nthe devil isn\u2019t making fires<br \/>\nin my bones, and I\u2019ve wept enough<br \/>\nto put an end to tears, and when<\/p>\n<p>I left the house,<\/p>\n<p>I saw a snail raise its retractable horns,<br \/>\nand frogs lift their eyes in Wind Dance Pond,<\/p>\n<p>and you and I are still alive,<\/p>\n<p>and the day will not ask anymore of us<br \/>\nas we share our feathered lives, and turn<br \/>\na little closer to one another.<\/p>\n<p>How about we believe in the world again.<\/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<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I Saw a Snail by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Walking the Lavender Trails up to the Andorra Meadow Loop, umbrella poplars broadening the day, I grow accustomed to soft sounds, and no sounds, and sounds that enter my soul-shaped body. Today, chaos isn\u2019t hounding my heels, the devil isn\u2019t making fires in my bones, [&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\/2832"}],"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=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}