{"id":3941,"date":"2020-11-23T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T19:16:10","slug":"sibling-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"Sibling Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The bro or sis I could have had <br>Had my parents not been so selfish. <br>O what I missed by their choice. <br>I had no voice in their &#8220;decision&#8221; <br>The foolishness of those who choose <br>Their lifestyles above the Law <br>Putting first things they saw, <br>The troubles that might have been <br>But never came. <br>Yes stupid and lame, were they <br>Indeed, ignorant of our real need <br>To trust and obey <br>Everyday. <br>There is no other way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Nov., 2020 at 0930  <br>(Nothing biographical here, Mom!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bro or sis I could have had Had my parents not been so selfish. O what I missed by their choice. I had no voice in their &#8220;decision&#8221; The foolishness of those who choose Their lifestyles above the Law Putting first things they saw, The troubles that might have been But never came. Yes [&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\/3941"}],"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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}