{"id":32023,"date":"2020-02-15T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=32023"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T23:45:34","slug":"growing-through-cobblestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=32023","title":{"rendered":"Growing Through Cobblestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3531\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-32023-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/growingthroughcobblestones.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/growingthroughcobblestones.mp3\">https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/growingthroughcobblestones.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>Blades of grass<br \/>\nGrowing through cobblestones.<br \/>\nWe pull up the stones<br \/>\nAnd then the grass.<br \/>\nWe find the wet side of the stone<br \/>\nAnd press it back into place<br \/>\nHow can it be<br \/>\nThat the stones fit before<br \/>\nBut they resist their return?<br \/>\nDoes the street breathe?<br \/>\nDo the stones<br \/>\nFreed of their bonds<br \/>\nStretch and expand?<br \/>\nWe press each stone back into place<br \/>\nBy hand<br \/>\nOr pressing rod<br \/>\nNever with a hammer&#8217;s blow<br \/>\nBecause we do not want<br \/>\nTo shatter a stone<br \/>\nAnd have to find a replacement<br \/>\nWhich fits<br \/>\nBetter than the stone<br \/>\nWhich fit just fine before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blades of grass Growing through cobblestones. We pull up the stones And then the grass. We find the wet side of the stone And press it back into place How can it be That the stones fit before But they resist their return? Does the street breathe? Do the stones Freed of their bonds Stretch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=32023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing Through Cobblestones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35792,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions\/35792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}