{"id":647,"date":"2015-02-17T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2015-02-17T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:42:18","slug":"prodigal-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Prodigal Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal Song<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Little by little,<br \/>\nMore and more<br \/>\nIs being carved away,<br \/>\nHollowed out,<br \/>\nEmptied out,<br \/>\nRuled out,<br \/>\nClarified,<br \/>\nLoosened,<br \/>\nReleased,<br \/>\nAnd unblocked.<br \/>\nLittle by little,<br \/>\nMore and more<br \/>\nThis uncluttering<br \/>\nAnd diminishing<br \/>\nLeaves me clear<br \/>\nAnd open and ready<br \/>\nFor Your breath<br \/>\nTo flow through me,<br \/>\nFor Your fingers<br \/>\nTo nimbly cover<br \/>\nAnd uncover the holes<br \/>\nIn my memories<br \/>\nAnd what I think<br \/>\nI want and need,<br \/>\nReady for You to play<br \/>\nThrough me<br \/>\nThe song You know<br \/>\nI most want to sing,<br \/>\nThe song You compose,<br \/>\nThe song You arrange,<br \/>\nThe song You gave me<br \/>\nIn the beginning<br \/>\nWhen You first kissed<br \/>\nMy forehead<br \/>\nAnd let me go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.163\" \/><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\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>Prodigal Song By Joseph Anthony Petro &nbsp; Little by little, More and more Is being carved away, Hollowed out, Emptied out, Ruled out, Clarified, Loosened, Released, And unblocked. Little by little, More and more This uncluttering And diminishing Leaves me clear And open and ready For Your breath To flow through me, For Your fingers [&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":[270,833,269,69,255,272,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}