{"id":249,"date":"2021-11-23T04:56:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronhampton.flywheelsites.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2021-11-23T04:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:56:39","slug":"on-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"On Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Twenty years after and still I grieve,<br \/>\nWill it not pass away?<br \/>\nA thought, a cue, a reminder or two,<br \/>\nAnd back comes that day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A time to mourn, a time to dance,<br \/>\nAnd yet I remember when,<br \/>\nHe danced, he sang, his laughter rang<br \/>\nAll through the house back then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A tear still breaks upon my cheek<br \/>\nWhen fleeting memories go.<br \/>\nHis hair, his face and yes a trace<br \/>\nOf his voice still lingers so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The briefest moment grief still comes<br \/>\nAnd then it\u2019s gone again.<br \/>\nA sigh, a breath, and then his death<br \/>\nFades like a summer rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh yes, the mourning lessens,<br \/>\nAs time passes on.<br \/>\nTo be born, to die, to laugh and cry,<br \/>\nMy grief is almost gone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I praise God today for a future time<br \/>\nWhen there will be no sorrow<br \/>\nNo pain no tears no more grief,<br \/>\nJust a heavenly tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #e6b500;\"><em>ron hampton, October 2000, updated 2019 &#8211; SDG<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years after and still I grieve,<br \/>\nWill it not pass away?<br \/>\nA thought, a cue, a reminder or two,<br \/>\nAnd back comes that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}