{"id":366,"date":"2006-03-18T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=366"},"modified":"2006-03-18T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T12:00:03","slug":"the-seed-of-the-burning-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-seed-of-the-burning-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seed of the Burning Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i stand knee deep in burning coals<br \/>\nwaist high in bombs bursting light<br \/>\neyes filled with poisonous gas<br \/>\nears to the crackling wind<\/p>\n<p>i kneel deep in daisy filled garden<br \/>\nsoft breeze caressing my face<br \/>\ntear drops coursing the river<br \/>\nbird song in my ear<\/p>\n<p>i lie on the ground hugging<br \/>\nholding least i fall further<br \/>\nthan i can remember being<br \/>\ndown in the deep deep well<\/p>\n<p>i turn to face my Maker<br \/>\ni cry, &#8220;o Maker face me!&#8221;<br \/>\ngive me just one reason,<br \/>\nor take this cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the crackling wind is silent<br \/>\nthe air is sweet &#038; pure<br \/>\ni see a tree in the garden<br \/>\nit burns but does not die<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My child, &#038; you are my child<br \/>\nMy love, and you are my love<br \/>\nYou are the seed of the burning<br \/>\nTree, and you and I are one.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i stand knee deep in burning coals waist high in bombs bursting light eyes filled with poisonous gas ears to the crackling wind i kneel deep in daisy filled garden soft breeze caressing my face tear drops coursing the river bird song in my ear i lie on the ground hugging holding least i fall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-seed-of-the-burning-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Seed of the Burning Tree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}