{"id":3526,"date":"2013-12-08T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2013-12-08T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T07:17:47","slug":"the-secrets-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"The Secrets of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a title=\"Garden-Angels-by-Marc-Oliver-Maheu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Garden-Angels-by-Marc-Oliver-Maheu.gif\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3527 alignleft\" alt=\"Garden-Angels-by-Marc-Oliver-Maheu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Garden-Angels-by-Marc-Oliver-Maheu-250x183.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\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 Secrets of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The riptide pulled and weighed us down,<br \/>swimming in our shoals.<br \/>It bent us in our will to win,<br \/>oh weary, sorry souls.<\/p>\n<p>Oh tiresome, terrifying days<br \/>when scholars moved to preach<br \/>that all of Christendom was ours,<br \/>but always out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Oh weary, sorry souls, I cried<br \/>for all of us, who\u2019re driven,<br \/>wherein unconscious mind, so tuned,<br \/>lays bare the ego given.<\/p>\n<p>Always, it seems, beyond our reach,<br \/>genetics never fail<br \/>to teach us how we must survive,<br \/>not how to trim the sail.<\/p>\n<p>Ego\u2019s given winds may blow,<br \/>but odysseys must end.<br \/>For quests beyond our human bounds,<br \/>Inferno may portend.<\/p>\n<p>Just when this sea of troubles weighed<br \/>too much on mortal coil,<br \/>the magic of encircling arms<br \/>became the perfect foil.<\/p>\n<p>So I reset the sails for home,<br \/>embracing Vesta\u2019s heart;<br \/>discovered Marais\u2019 secret strength:<br \/>in concert, ne\u2019er apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>from My Poetry Library<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<br \/><em>\u00a9 2013 John Anstie<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&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-3526","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\/3526","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=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}