{"id":1223,"date":"2007-07-21T20:22:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/07\/21\/a-pause-reflection\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T20:22:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T01:22:36","slug":"a-pause-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/07\/a-pause-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"a pause and reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>looking down a dusty road,<br \/>\nbirds chirping abound \u2013 a<br \/>\ncalm peace and quite settle on down.<br \/>\nthe sun shines in a field of cerebellum<br \/>\nwind softly moving south.<\/p>\n<p>forever stretches out ahead of me<br \/>\na clear and strait path that leads<br \/>\nhome.<\/p>\n<p>the trees laughing and grasses dancing<br \/>\nwheat fields swaying with their tops<br \/>\nhung low \u2013 some thing heavenly on their minds.<\/p>\n<p>visions of Eternity flirt in and out of my<br \/>\nunderstanding \u2013<br \/>\nwords of a prophet \u2013 ancient and modern,<br \/>\nbolster and strengthen me.<br \/>\nI look forward and end my rest, my<br \/>\nstop for the Sabbath day.<\/p>\n<p>with strength and encouragement<br \/>\nI confidently put one foot in front<br \/>\nand stepped out of my respite.<br \/>\ndust clouds poofing up as I put each<br \/>\nfoot down.<br \/>\nwalking down the road of eternal<br \/>\nlife . . . many miles left to go and<br \/>\nsomeone to find and help me along.<br \/>\none day . . . I will be blessed<br \/>\nby a companion.<\/p>\n<p>smiling and shining \u2013 light and angelic<br \/>\nstill I walk the dusty road<br \/>\nalone . . .<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n2000.09.17\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>looking down a dusty road, birds chirping abound \u2013 a calm peace and quite settle on down. the sun shines in a field of cerebellum wind softly moving south. forever stretches out ahead of me a clear and strait path that leads home. the trees laughing and grasses dancing wheat fields swaying with their tops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}