{"id":133996,"date":"2023-09-02T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133996"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:08:00","slug":"pray-child-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/pray-child-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray Child, Pray!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you still put those tiny hands together<br \/>\nEach morning in prayer<br \/>\nBeside your little cribs?<br \/>\nDo it!<br \/>\nNo matter how sleepy you are,<br \/>\nFall to your knees and shut your crystal eyes<br \/>\nNo matter how hungry you are for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>For The One above<br \/>\nListens better to you and your friends<br \/>\nYour hearts are so clean and pure<br \/>\nHis anger melts when you speak!<\/p>\n<p>Dear child,<br \/>\nDon\u2019t pray only for food and drinks<br \/>\nOr for more toys and riches<br \/>\nPray too for peace and love<br \/>\nFor Life is such a battlefield!<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<br \/>\nPlease pray too for us dear child<br \/>\nFor our hearts are too proud<br \/>\nToo filthy<br \/>\nPray so He could have mercy<br \/>\nAnd maybe  make our hearts a  bit cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026And perhaps<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019re older<br \/>\nThe future ones will pray for you too! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you still put those tiny hands together Each morning in prayer Beside your little cribs? Do it! No matter how sleepy you are, Fall to your knees and shut your crystal eyes No matter how hungry you are for breakfast. For The One above&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[6049],"class_list":["post-133996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-halfmarathonpoem-2023halfmarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134021,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996\/revisions\/134021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}