{"id":612,"date":"2015-01-19T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2015-01-19T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:09:57","slug":"birthday-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birthday Verse<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony Petro<\/p>\n<p>Dream into the day<br \/>\nOf roads and rivers<br \/>\nAnd paths winding<br \/>\nThrough sleepy woods,<br \/>\nAnd fields draped with butterflies<br \/>\nAnd honeybees, and time,<br \/>\nAnd a summer evening blessed<br \/>\nWith cricket songs and a carnival of fireflies.<br \/>\nKeep these things, tuck them away<br \/>\nIn the pockets of your life.<br \/>\nThey are yours forever.<br \/>\nAnd then awaken.<br \/>\nAwaken into the joy<br \/>\nOf discovering the purpose<br \/>\nYou were created for,<br \/>\nAnd be yourself\u2014<br \/>\nFull of treasure, full<br \/>\nOf blessings, full<br \/>\nOf an emptiness never meant<br \/>\nTo be filled\u2014an emptiness<br \/>\nThat sings: I am a river<br \/>\nAnd I am a fountain,<br \/>\nAnd I am the day,<br \/>\nAnd I am your life.<br \/>\nShare me with the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\" \/>Thank you for your kind donations to the Wonder Child Blog<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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birthday Verse By Joseph Anthony Petro Dream into the day Of roads and rivers And paths winding Through sleepy woods, And fields draped with butterflies And honeybees, and time, And a summer evening blessed With cricket songs and a carnival of fireflies. Keep these things, tuck them away In the pockets of your life. They [&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":[178,176,75,832,833,177,834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}