{"id":6049,"date":"2022-06-13T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2022-06-13T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:05:59","slug":"bottles-on-the-bookcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6049","title":{"rendered":"A Knife from Thakur and Sunil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those bottles sitting on a bookcase <br>With a knife from Thakur and Sunil, <br>Refugees from the East  <br>Whom we met in Germany<br>Looking for peace in the West <br>Taken in by a fellow from the base. <br>Col. Lembers had given them a place; <br>He found them while they made the art <br>Providing them shelter and a new start. <br>Don&#8217;t know how long they stayed around <br>Or where today they might be found. <br>We took them, Mom and Dad Bray, <br>Into our home for while to stay <br>Until they could fine their way West <br>All the way to the bountiful U.S. <br>Needed passports, paperwork and money <br>To make it to the land of fun and honey. <br>Pleasant memories rise up now and then <br>And fill my heart with thanksgiving <br>To Him Who saves and sustains <br>And relieves people of their pains.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0900 on 13 June, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those bottles sitting on a bookcase With a knife from Thakur and Sunil, Refugees from the East Whom we met in GermanyLooking for peace in the West Taken in by a fellow from the base. Col. Lembers had given them a place; He found them while they made the art Providing them shelter and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,12,57,18,56,52,53,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049"}],"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=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6056,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}