{"id":1728,"date":"2013-06-26T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2013-07-04T19:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:29:34","slug":"compassion-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Compassion Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"compassion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/compassion.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1729\" alt=\"compassion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/compassion-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/compassion-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/compassion-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\"><strong>Compassion Hurts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Connected to everything <br \/> we carry the universe <br \/> or are crushed by it. <br \/> We must be strong to love <br \/> the world. It&#8217;s hard <br \/> to sit at the table <br \/> of earth&#8217;s worst horrors <br \/> My rich imagination <br \/> is the power that shoves <br \/> me off the seat of self <br \/> and shows how blind <br \/> my eyes turned in can be.<\/p>\n<p>Let me close enough to you <br \/> that your tears will appear <br \/> on my cheek, as you seek <br \/> to share experience <br \/> that I may never meet. <br \/> I must grow strong enough <br \/> to love the world as it is <br \/> and be empty enough <br \/> to stay with your pain. <br \/> Let us huddle together <br \/> to keep out the cold, <br \/> for we need eyes <br \/> that still can weep, <br \/> and smiles so big <br \/> we can&#8217;t see ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Gael Bage\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>UK<em><\/blockquote><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}