{"id":2447,"date":"2009-04-08T08:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:17:14","slug":"april-poetry-a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"April poetry: A Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Throughout the month of April, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/47\">National Poetry Month<\/a>, I will share with you some original poetry written by members of my family. <\/p>\n<p>This sonnet was written by my daughter, Ida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Prayer<\/strong><br \/>\nOh Lord, if You will hear one prayer of mine,<br \/>\nHear this for I&#8217;m afraid that I may break.<br \/>\nAnd since You&#8217;ve transformed water into wine,<br \/>\nI know that You in just a day could make<br \/>\nAll my monotony come to an end,<br \/>\nThe bars of iron bend, the barbed wire break.<br \/>\nI know, by Grace, You even could transcend<br \/>\nMy dreams. But I don&#8217;t ask for this. I&#8217;ll take<br \/>\nThe trials too. Just help me as I do,<br \/>\nAssist me as I try to find a way.<br \/>\nYou know that my desires are pure and true<br \/>\nSo please look down with loving eyes today<br \/>\nAnd show me how to make my dream come true<br \/>\nIn any way, my Lord, that pleases You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the month of April, which is National Poetry Month, I will share with you some original poetry written by members of my family. This sonnet was written&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,104],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}