{"id":355,"date":"2017-10-21T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorfred.blogsite.org\/?p=355"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:53:05","slug":"pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (Edited slightly 23-Sep-2025) <\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family:serif;font-size:larger;\">\n\nHard reason, iron-clad logic...\nStern soldiers stand guard at my heart's gates.\n\nNerves twitch delicately, twanging with pain,\nBidding the leap backward from danger.\n\nDefenses long in building guard the old weak places,\nRuined walls that tell of former invasions.\n\nBut walls confine as well as guard.\nAnd there are pathways I have never closed,\nPathways of love.\n\nAnd the shock comes without warning, in an unexpected quarter,\nAnd suddenly you are inside my defenses.\n\nYou speak words of mystery and pain,\nAnd I must feel the pain as I wonder at the mystery.\n\nThere are pathways I have never closed and never will.\nPathways of life.\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem written from the depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","has-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}