{"id":562,"date":"2014-12-14T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2014-12-14T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:51:01","slug":"december-13-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"12 \/ 13 \/ 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">12 \/ 13 \/ 14<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">12 \/ 13 \/ 14<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The tissue paper wing of the dead cicada,<br \/>\nThe dry, decomposing leaf that reveals the hair-thin frame,<br \/>\nThe tailspinning snowflake landing on my coat,<br \/>\nThe seedling finally threading through the ruckusy goings on of the thick forest floor,<br \/>\nThe hatchling robins shaking, blind, void of feathers, hungry,<br \/>\nThe surface of the pond as I just lay my hand, like so, upon its face,<br \/>\nMy hand as the cool water enfolds it with the darkness of sensation,<br \/>\nThe small Christmas present, all crinkles and tape, loosely and lovingly wrapped by a child,<br \/>\nThe quavering moon held in the fingertips of the winter branches,<br \/>\nThe trembling hand adding the last, tiniest detail to the drawing,<br \/>\nThe onion skin paper between the pages of the prayer book from the 1800\u2019s,<br \/>\nThis heart, this mind, this fluttering soul,<br \/>\nHow does one allow for such vulnerable tenderness?<br \/>\nHow does one be in the presence of such beautiful, holy fragility<br \/>\nWithout feeling the impulse to crush?<br \/>\nHow, dear Lord of sparrows and lilies,<br \/>\nDoes one protect such delicate things?<\/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\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 \/ 13 \/ 14 by Joseph Anthony 12 \/ 13 \/ 14 The tissue paper wing of the dead cicada, The dry, decomposing leaf that reveals the hair-thin frame, The tailspinning snowflake landing on my coat, The seedling finally threading through the ruckusy goings on of the thick forest floor, The hatchling robins shaking, [&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":[92,97,94,99,100,93,75,98,833,96,84,69,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}