{"id":138,"date":"2007-03-22T16:55:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T23:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-03-22T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T23:55:23","slug":"the-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"The Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image137\" height=\"96\" alt=\"therose.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/therose.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed.<br \/>\nSome say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.<br \/>\nSome say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need.<br \/>\nI say love, it is a flower, and You its only seed.<br \/>\nIt's the heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance.<br \/>\nIt's the dream, afraid of waking, that never takes a chance.<br \/>\nIt's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give.<br \/>\nAnd the soul, afraid of dyin', that never learns to live.<br \/>\nWhen the night has been too lonely,<br \/>\nand the road has been too long,<br \/>\nAnd you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,<br \/>\nJust remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,<br \/>\nLies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes<br \/>\nThe Rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower, and You its only seed. It's the heart, afraid of breaking, that <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=138\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The Rose\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wisdom-quotes","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}