{"id":63844,"date":"2020-06-27T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63844"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:34:05","slug":"grandmas-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/grandmas-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmas Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Her voice is remembered like a gospel song<br \/>\nOr a book of proverbs and psalms<br \/>\nWise words to be a balm against hard times and hearts hardened<br \/>\nTeaching how to love neighbors and give pardons to others that have been condemned<br \/>\nTo light fires to lights once dimmed by dark days<br \/>\nTo rejoice with gratitude even if the current situation seems bleak<br \/>\nTo master mercy for the outkast and the weak<br \/>\nTo in all things love and wisdom seek<br \/>\nAnd to always get a full understanding<br \/>\nHer voice was quite demanding that we acted as our brothers keeper<br \/>\nKeepers of faith so that fear would hold no space in our hearts<br \/>\nBecause doubt is the devil and the devil is a lie<br \/>\nAnd she demanded that we live in truth<br \/>\nHer truth was feeding the hungry and housing the youth<br \/>\nAs a child she taught me to treat everyone as an angel even if they behaved like demons<br \/>\nThat anyone can be converted to love once you put the seed in<br \/>\nI am her blood, so her philosophy bleeds out of all of my pores<br \/>\nSo I continue her example of being a champion for the oppressed and poor<br \/>\nContinuing the fight as a soldier of God in this eternal holy war.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her voice is remembered like a gospel song Or a book of proverbs and psalms Wise words to be a balm against hard times and hearts hardened Teaching how to love neighbors and give pardons to others that have been condemned To light fires to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63844","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\/1506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63920,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63844\/revisions\/63920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}