{"id":4529,"date":"2021-04-22T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:24:08","slug":"keepin-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4529","title":{"rendered":"Keepin&#8217; on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I sit and pray and I meditate <br>And thoughts arise while in that state. <br>Words come to mind and I just pen <br>One after another to the end <br>Of lines that total about eighteen <br>And by then it&#8217;s time to wean <br>Myself from paper, pen, and chair, <br>No longer at walls and fire to stare. <br>Now up comes Ike to get ready, <br>A man who stays on track, <br>Never wandering or looking back <br>Or for another route but the Word <br>Keeping him straight and from the absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0630 on 15 April, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit and pray and I meditate And thoughts arise while in that state. Words come to mind and I just pen One after another to the end Of lines that total about eighteen And by then it&#8217;s time to wean Myself from paper, pen, and chair, No longer at walls and fire to stare. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,18,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529"}],"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=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}