{"id":2347,"date":"2013-07-29T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2013-08-01T07:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T04:17:37","slug":"blind-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Blind Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dog-watch-Sunset\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dog-watch-Sunset.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2348\" alt=\"Dog-watch-Sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dog-watch-Sunset-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dog-watch-Sunset-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dog-watch-Sunset-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><strong> <blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Blind Devotion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along the river bank one day<br \/>I met a man and dog at play<\/p>\n<p>the dog carried in his mouth<br \/>a rubber ring<br \/>an awkward thing<\/p>\n<p>but that was not the strangest sight<br \/>his faithful eyes were milky white<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can he find the ring?\u201d I asked<br \/>And his master softly laughed<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make sure he knows,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>bent down to point his blind dog\u2019s head<br \/>toward the way that he would throw<\/p>\n<p>and with tail wagging off he sped<\/p>\n<p>the ring jostled by his side<br \/>then tumbled to the ground to hide<\/p>\n<p>at first the dog walked round and round<br \/>sniffed and sniffed \u2018til it was found<\/p>\n<p>then headed off in joyful glee<br \/>you would not know he could not see<\/p>\n<p>back eventually he came<br \/>sat back down \u2013 \u201cmore \u2026 more \u2026 the same\u201d<\/p>\n<p>every muscle was a quiver<br \/>he knew his master would deliver<\/p>\n<p>And I?<br \/>I cried inside as I stood there<br \/>watching this devoted pair<\/p>\n<p>For love that binds a man with dog<br \/>is surely love that comes from God<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Amanda Edwards<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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-2347","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\/2347","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=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}