{"id":645,"date":"2015-02-16T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:49:10","slug":"along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Along the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along the Way<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along the Way<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will fumble for the right words,<br \/>\nOld ideas I\u2019ve built around how I think<br \/>\nEverything should go will crumble,<br \/>\nAnd there will be no doubt that again<br \/>\nAnd again I will stumble and fall.<br \/>\nI will bumble a big deal.<br \/>\nI will mumble telling the truth.<br \/>\nI will grumble when following<br \/>\nSomeone else\u2019s directions.<br \/>\nMy thoughts will become entangled<br \/>\nIn a jumble of feelings.<br \/>\nAnd through it all, the stomach of my soul<br \/>\nWill rumble with hunger for You, and You alone.<br \/>\nAlong the way, which is of course, here and now,<br \/>\nThe earth will be calling my name,<br \/>\nAnd as I draw closer to You, You will somehow<br \/>\nTie heaven and earth together as I kneel<br \/>\nAnd allow my self to be lifted and placed<br \/>\nSecurely in the lap of the way it is,<br \/>\nWhere all of the fumbling and crumbling,<br \/>\nStumbling and bumbling, mumbling<br \/>\nAnd grumbling, jumbling and rumbling<br \/>\nWill settle where it needs to be,<br \/>\nWhich is in the sacrament<br \/>\nOf the present moment and me being<br \/>\nHumble.<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/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\" \/><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\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the Way By Joseph Anthony Petro &nbsp; Along the Way &nbsp; I will fumble for the right words, Old ideas I\u2019ve built around how I think Everything should go will crumble, And there will be no doubt that again And again I will stumble and fall. I will bumble a big deal. I will [&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":[142,266,265,107,267,69,264,244,143,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}