{"id":46157,"date":"2017-09-26T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/?p=46157"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:59:00","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/poetry\/gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\nGratitude, a state of mind<br>\nIt comes in waves, one following another<br>\nAlways there for us<br>\nGratitude for beauty<br>\nThe beauty everywhere and in all things<br>\nAll perfect, ever evolving<br>\nGiving, always giving<br>\nHer offerings are boundless<br>\nYet they do not belong to us<br>\nThey softly grace us, like a subtle breeze\nBut, our gift is our consciousness<br>\nOur ability to know, to feel, to appreciate<br>\nTo recognize the beauty in all things<br>\nTo be grateful for that beauty<br>\nTo know what gratitude feels like\nAnd our purpose, our true reward, is to share<br>\nShare the smiles, that happiness brings us<br>\nThe joy, that we feel<br>\nGive away kindness<br>\nLet it spring forth from our hearts<br>\nBe kind<br>\nShare the love that endows us<br>\nShare, always share<br>\nThat is our greatest gift\nJoe Fox<br>\nSeptember 26, 2017\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gratitude, a state of mind It comes in waves, one following another Always there for us Gratitude for beauty The beauty everywhere and in all things All perfect, ever evolving Giving, always giving Her offerings are boundless Yet they do not belong to us They softly grace us, like a subtle breeze But, our gift&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}