{"id":43,"date":"2009-05-03T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-05-03T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T16:04:13","slug":"the-chosen-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"The Chosen One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I had a dream the other night<br \/>\nIt came to me so clear<br \/>\nI stood before the throne of God<br \/>\nAfraid to come near<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God said to me &#8220;I hear your prayers&#8221;<br \/>\nThere are answers you can&#8217;t find<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve asked you here to talk to me<br \/>\nAnd help to ease your mind<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I said, &#8220;Well, yes God, I am upset<br \/>\nAbout my special one<br \/>\nThis punishment is awfully harsh<br \/>\nWhat have we ever done?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God looked at me and shook his head<br \/>\nand said you&#8217;ve got it wrong<br \/>\nI sent this special child to you<br \/>\nbecause you are so strong!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I searched and searched to find someone<br \/>\nWith love so true and rare<br \/>\nA parent so unselfish<br \/>\nThat could give this special care<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I try and save my special gifts<br \/>\nLike those you&#8217;re speaking of<br \/>\nFor special kinds of parents<br \/>\nI call the &#8220;Chosen Ones&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of all the ones to choose from<br \/>\nThink this I have done<br \/>\nA parent who deserves the best<br \/>\nAn honor you have won.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream the other night It came to me so clear I stood before the throne of God Afraid to come near God said to me &#8220;I hear your prayers&#8221; There are answers you can&#8217;t find I&#8217;ve asked you here to talk to me And help to ease your mind I said, &#8220;Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}