{"id":46177,"date":"2020-10-02T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/?p=46177"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:07:00","slug":"our-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/poetry\/our-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\nOn the beach, at water&#8217;s edge<br>\nThe ocean is calm<br>\nSoft waves<br>\nA few cargo ships miles away<br>\nDarkness but for the Moon<br>\nShining her light on the water below\nLook up, stars fill the sky<br>\nA shooting star just now<br>\nAnd our sister planets<br>\nMars just to the left of the Moon<br>\nTo my right, Jupiter and Saturn<br>\nAnd the Milky Way\nBeauty, peace and euphoria<br>\nAnd yet, regret<br>\nFor the times I thought, my life,<br>\nWas my life<br>\nUnique, distinct, apart<br>\nIt never was, never will be<br>\nRather a manifestation<br>\nOf this beauty I see now<br>\nAn expression of it all\nAnd so grateful to know this now<br>\nHopeful, to remember it always<br>\nTo be the manifestation<br>\nIn thought and action<br>\nOf the goodness that created me<br>\nThe goodness that I am<br>\nAlways\nAnd yet a tiny fabric<br>\nOf this wondrous tapestry we are<br>\nAs we share, our life\nJoe Fox<br>\nOctober 2, 2020\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the beach, at water&#8217;s edge The ocean is calm Soft waves A few cargo ships miles away Darkness but for the Moon Shining her light on the water below Look up, stars fill the sky A shooting star just now And our sister planets Mars just to the left of the Moon To my&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\/46177"}],"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=46177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}