{"id":72304,"date":"2020-06-27T22:34:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72304"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:34:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:34:39","slug":"shaping-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/shaping-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaping the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(using prompt 14)<\/p>\n<p>By Sandy Lender<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me<\/p>\n<p>How amazing God\u2019s love<\/p>\n<p>That when He formed the world<\/p>\n<p>When He molded the Earth<\/p>\n<p>With its hills, valleys, rivers, streams<\/p>\n<p>He elected to let Calvary stand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me<\/p>\n<p>How amazing God\u2019s grace<\/p>\n<p>That when He shaped the clay<\/p>\n<p>Smoothing its imperfections<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps He paused over the lump<\/p>\n<p>Where He allowed Calvary to stand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me<\/p>\n<p>How amazing God\u2019s plan<\/p>\n<p>That despite our hatefulness<\/p>\n<p>And the horrors we inflict daily<\/p>\n<p>Upon His world, His son, His creation<\/p>\n<p>He made a way to let Calvary stand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(using prompt 14) By Sandy Lender &nbsp; &nbsp; It occurred to me How amazing God\u2019s love That when He formed the world When He molded the Earth With its hills, valleys, rivers, streams He elected to let Calvary stand &nbsp; It occurred to me How&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72304","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72306,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72304\/revisions\/72306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}