{"id":619,"date":"2015-01-23T17:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-01-23T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:39:54","slug":"allowing-birdsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Allowing Birdsong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing Birdsong<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony Petro<\/p>\n<p>There is a softness<br \/>\nIn the pain<br \/>\nJust big enough<br \/>\nTo crawl through<br \/>\nAnd cry, like<br \/>\nA baby.<br \/>\nThere is a softness<br \/>\nIn the pain<br \/>\nThat opens<br \/>\nJust wide enough<br \/>\nTo allow birdsong<br \/>\nTo filter in.<br \/>\nThere is a softness<br \/>\nIn the pain<br \/>\nThat you can<br \/>\nSink down into<br \/>\nWithout any thought<br \/>\nOr care of what anyone<br \/>\nThinks or says or does,<br \/>\nWhere you can surrender<br \/>\nDeeply into the coldness<br \/>\nThat is a broken heart,<br \/>\nKnowing it will end,<br \/>\nIt has to end. The pain<br \/>\nCannot last forever.<br \/>\nAnd the softness&#8211;<br \/>\nThe softness will gradually<br \/>\nBegin to radiate out<br \/>\nEncompassing things, like<br \/>\nLove, mercy, self-acceptance,<br \/>\nDetermination, other people,<br \/>\nAnd the growing ability<br \/>\nTo allow yourself<br \/>\nTo be happy.<\/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\" \/><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>Thank you for your support<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.163\" \/><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>Allowing Birdsong By Joseph Anthony Petro There is a softness In the pain Just big enough To crawl through And cry, like A baby. There is a softness In the pain That opens Just wide enough To allow birdsong To filter in. There is a softness In the pain That you can Sink down into [&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":[105,186,70,74,185,833,187,143,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}