{"id":669,"date":"2015-03-08T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2015-03-08T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T01:50:11","slug":"echo-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Echo, Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Echo, Sadness<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nEcho, sadness, on the walls of my chest,<br \/>\nOver the skin on my shoulders,<br \/>\nEcho, sadness, roll down my arms<br \/>\nAnd splash from my fingers,<br \/>\nEcho, sadness, through the waters of my soul,<br \/>\nIn the hollow of my hands, in the pit of my belly,<br \/>\nEcho, sadness, through my bones,<br \/>\nThrough the shell of my memories,<br \/>\nEcho, like sonar and find the lost ships of desire.<br \/>\nEcho, sadness\u2014shudder through the ghosts<br \/>\nOf my mind, allow them the gift<br \/>\nOf dissolving like mist in light\u2014audible light\u2014<br \/>\nLet them sing as they go, thinning<br \/>\nInto particles of mantras and prayers.<br \/>\nEcho, sadness, ring in the bell of my heart<br \/>\nAnd pour through the valley of my past<br \/>\nAnd the mountains of my fears.<br \/>\nEcho, sadness, here, in this rattled and quivering breath&#8212;<br \/>\nShallow and catching\u2014echo here and in this here&#8211;<br \/>\nSound the call of healing and let this be but a beginning<br \/>\nOf the unleashing of the mighty dragons of joy<br \/>\nFrom the company of heaven.<\/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>Echo, Sadness By Joseph Anthony Petro &nbsp; Echo, sadness, on the walls of my chest, Over the skin on my shoulders, Echo, sadness, roll down my arms And splash from my fingers, Echo, sadness, through the waters of my soul, In the hollow of my hands, in the pit of my belly, Echo, sadness, through [&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":[299,300,161,296,74,301,833,174,84,69,298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}