{"id":3031,"date":"2013-09-22T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T10:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2013-09-22T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T10:04:32","slug":"the-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"The Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/images5.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3032\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/images5-250x183.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" \/><\/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><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The Visit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her eyes sparkle<br \/>As she<br \/>Takes my arm<br \/>And leads me<br \/>Through the memory-filled<br \/>Museum of History.<br \/>\u201cThis is the guy<br \/>Who writes that column!\u201d<br \/>She proclaims.<br \/>We are greeted<br \/>By smiles, handshakes,<br \/>Nods of appreciation.<br \/>We sit,<br \/>Surrounded by artifacts<br \/>Left behind by<br \/>Warriors,<br \/>Explorers,<br \/>Adventurers<br \/>Who faced the challenges<br \/>Of uncertain futures<br \/>With courage, vision,<br \/>And conviction.<br \/>\u201cPeople don\u2019t often<br \/>Take the time to express<br \/>Appreciation,\u201d she explains.<br \/>\u201cI like what you write.<br \/>You write from the heart,<br \/>And there is love<br \/>And Truth<br \/>In your words.<br \/>You don\u2019t know<br \/>How many people<br \/>Are touched<br \/>By what you say,<br \/>And I asked you here today<br \/>So that you could see<br \/>That what you do<br \/>Has meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Phil Ray Jack<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&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-3031","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\/3031","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=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}