{"id":22634,"date":"2016-08-13T16:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22634"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:58:13","slug":"flowers-in-the-spirit-house-are-borrowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/flowers-in-the-spirit-house-are-borrowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers in the Spirit House are Borrowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers in the spirit house are borrowed,<br \/>\nthe life that has been given us is lent;<br \/>\nwe haven&#8217;t got a promise of tomorrow,<br \/>\nso gather blossoms &#8216;ere your time is spent.<\/p>\n<p>The life that has been given us is lended,<br \/>\nlike butterflies that live at once to die;<br \/>\nso gather blossoms &#8216;ere your time is ended,<br \/>\ntheir colors fall like rain across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Like butterflies that live for but a fortnight,<br \/>\nour spirits leave the earth uncommon fast;<br \/>\ntheir colors fall like rainbows shining so bright,<br \/>\nrejoice and gather flowers while they last.<\/p>\n<p>Our spirits leave the earth returning homeward,<br \/>\nflowers in the spirit house are light;<br \/>\nrejoice and gather flowers leaning sunward&#8211;<br \/>\nwe haven&#8217;t got a promise of tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers in the spirit house are borrowed, the life that has been given us is lent; we haven&#8217;t got a promise of tomorrow, so gather blossoms &#8216;ere your time is spent. The life that has been given us is lended, like butterflies that live at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22658,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634\/revisions\/22658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}