{"id":3908,"date":"2020-11-17T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2020-11-17T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:35:07","slug":"when-we-build-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"When We Build Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we build our lives <br>Around our frail selves <br>They soon become a blight. <br>In our memories past <br>The pleasures and pursuits outlasted <br>By the closing of creditors<br>Upon us with a fury <br>Paying us back for the hurry <br>We made of our time. <br>What do we owe others <br>Brothers, mothers, and God Himself <br>When all we do is through <br>And time to give answers arrives? <br>What will we say for our lives? <br>What answer will we give? <br>For what did we live? <br>There is no one other, <br>No sister of brother,<br>Worthy of honor and praise, <br>Service all of our days <br>Look up!\u00a0 Raise your head! <br>Follow Him who rose <br>From the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:15, 15 Nov., 2020 <br>(Third poem of the day.&nbsp; Must be perturbed\/inspired by certain events)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we build our lives Around our frail selves They soon become a blight. In our memories past The pleasures and pursuits outlasted By the closing of creditorsUpon us with a fury Paying us back for the hurry We made of our time. What do we owe others Brothers, mothers, and God Himself When all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,30,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}