{"id":3024,"date":"2024-04-24T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:30:56","slug":"wishing-for-nothing-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"Wishing for Nothing, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing for Nothing<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on the other side of the room,<br \/>\nin my favorite chair, I listen to her<br \/>\nplay Mendelson on the piano&#8211;<br \/>\ncreating audible time and giving texture<br \/>\nto eternity&#8211;two hands passing melodies back<br \/>\nand forth, notes waving at one another. I\u2019ve heard<br \/>\nthat some patients in the operating room<br \/>\nhear orchestras playing their favorite symphonies<br \/>\nas they count down from ten.<br \/>\nI look up from my morning reading of Machado\u2019s poems,<br \/>\nand see outside the window so much green,<br \/>\nI follow a leaf-hopper with my eyes,<br \/>\nthe rainmaker has left town, and there are<br \/>\nstrawberries ready for picking, I hear the light<br \/>\nof the sun coming down through the trees,<br \/>\nthe density of my worries has lifted,<br \/>\nand the remembered self awakens, and thoughts<br \/>\nescape me, and that\u2019s all to the good.<br \/>\nI am in the Pure Land wishing for nothing.<\/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=\"216.73.216.175\" \/><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing for Nothing by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Sitting on the other side of the room, in my favorite chair, I listen to her play Mendelson on the piano&#8211; creating audible time and giving texture to eternity&#8211;two hands passing melodies back and forth, notes waving at one another. I\u2019ve heard that some patients in the [&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\/3024"}],"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=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}