{"id":417,"date":"2016-01-29T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:38:51","slug":"child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned in my books, sometimes words just pour forth, title and all. There are occasions when a title comes into my mind &#8211; and it could be six months or more before the poem comes along to go with the title. Periodically, a poem literally &#8220;writes itself&#8221; and I have to come up with a title to go along.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Child&#8221; is one of those works that simply wrote itself.\u00a0 And the title was obvious. Even today, in my sixth decade of live on planet Earth, the actions mentioned in this poem bring out the inner child in me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Child.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Child.jpg\" alt=\"Child - Excerpt from Song of the Heart, The Complete Collection\" width=\"575\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Child.jpg 575w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Child-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child &#8211; Excerpt from Song of the Heart, The Complete Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned in my books, sometimes words just pour forth, title and all. There are occasions when a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=417\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Child<\/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":[69],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songheart","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\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}