{"id":398,"date":"2016-01-11T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T23:06:17","slug":"song-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BookCoverImage.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-401 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BookCoverImage-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"BookCoverImage\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BookCoverImage-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BookCoverImage.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>As I begin this new series using the poems from my all-inclusive volume, Song of the Heart &#8211; The Complete Collection, I will give a bit of a &#8220;story&#8221; with each poem to give the reader an idea of how the poem came to be.<\/p>\n<p>This first series will be from Song of the Heart &#8211; Volume 1 &#8211; Heart&#8217;s Desire. In the late 1980s, our local newspaper in Alaska began a column called &#8220;Poetspeak,&#8221; with a request for local poets to submit their works for consideration for the column. Kurt Kristensen served as &#8220;editor&#8221; and his wife, Linda, sketched original illustrations for each poem. Kenay Sunset was the first poem I submitted for publication. I still have the original newspaper clippings of the first several poems I submitted and Linda illustrated.<\/p>\n<p>The first poem I will include in this new blog category is the title poem of the series.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399\" style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SongheartPrintmasterNEW_Page_005.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SongheartPrintmasterNEW_Page_005.jpg\" alt=\"Song Heart Title Poem\" width=\"581\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SongheartPrintmasterNEW_Page_005.jpg 581w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SongheartPrintmasterNEW_Page_005-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Song of the Heart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I begin this new series using the poems from my all-inclusive volume, Song of the Heart &#8211; The Complete &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=398\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Song of the Heart<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[68,67,69],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songheart","tag-christian-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-song-of-the-heart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}