{"id":220,"date":"2015-06-22T09:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:20:23","slug":"i-grieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/22\/i-grieve\/","title":{"rendered":"I Grieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>I Grieve<\/p>\n<p>because no one<br \/>\nknows the Truth<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>and because<br \/>\nthe well is so deep<br \/>\nand we are all<br \/>\nso thirsty.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I grieve<br \/>\nfor my mother,<br \/>\nwho lost her soul<br \/>\nbefore she lost her mind,<br \/>\nand for my father<br \/>\nwho stumbled and fell<br \/>\nbefore losing his way home<br \/>\nin the dark<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>I grieve<\/p>\n<p>for my children<br \/>\nbecause<br \/>\nthey could not<br \/>\nhave known,<\/p>\n<p>and because<br \/>\nthey never will.<\/p>\n<p>And I grieve<br \/>\nthe end<br \/>\nof second chances<\/p>\n<p>and the extinction<br \/>\nof forever.<\/p>\n<p>I grieve because<br \/>\nthe sky<br \/>\nis shriveling<br \/>\nin its skin,<\/p>\n<p>and because<\/p>\n<p>I know what<br \/>\nI cannot know,<\/p>\n<p>and can never tell<\/p>\n<p>And because<br \/>\nno one<br \/>\nwould believe me<br \/>\nanyway.<\/p>\n<p>I grieve<br \/>\nbecause tears<br \/>\nare more potent<br \/>\nthan words<\/p>\n<p>and words<br \/>\nare all I have left.<\/p>\n<p>And because<br \/>\nnothing will ever be<br \/>\nthe same<\/p>\n<p>and because<br \/>\nnothing<br \/>\never was.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I grieve<br \/>\nthe ebbing<br \/>\nof wonder<\/p>\n<p>and the vanishing<br \/>\nshades of green<br \/>\nand blue<\/p>\n<p>and the father<br \/>\nwho never<br \/>\nknew<\/p>\n<p>and who<br \/>\nnever will<br \/>\nknow<\/p>\n<p>Why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Grieve because no one knows the Truth and because the well is so deep and we are all so thirsty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}