{"id":197,"date":"2009-09-02T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-11-22T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T02:14:12","slug":"she-prayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2009\/she-prayed\/","title":{"rendered":"She Prayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The little girl knelt<br \/>\nHer hands together<br \/>\nAnd head bowed<br \/>\nShe prayed<br \/>\nShe asked for<br \/>\nForgiveness<br \/>\nShe pleaded for<br \/>\nGuidance<br \/>\nShe begged for<br \/>\nRepentance<br \/>\nShe wept for<br \/>\nRedemption<br \/>\nShe prayed hoping for an answer<br \/>\nThat never came<br \/>\nShe picked up her head<br \/>\nHer soft hair falling<br \/>\nAnd looked at the stars<br \/>\nShe asked silently<br \/>\nGod why don\u2019t you answer me<br \/>\nYet no answer came<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She prayed every night<br \/>\nFor the rest of her life<br \/>\nWaiting for that answer<br \/>\nThat never came<br \/>\nFaithfully she returned<br \/>\nEvery night and knelt<br \/>\nShe refused to loose hope<br \/>\nHands together<br \/>\nAnd head bowed<br \/>\nShe prayed<br \/>\nShe always listened<br \/>\nBut no word came<br \/>\nBut still she believed<br \/>\nThat he was waiting<br \/>\nAnd watching over her<br \/>\nHe never did help her<br \/>\nHe never reached down<br \/>\nTo a child on her knees<br \/>\nAnd said to her<br \/>\nIt is all right, you can go now<br \/>\nYou can go free<br \/>\nHe left her all alone<br \/>\nHer parents didn\u2019t understand<br \/>\nThen her children didn\u2019t understand<br \/>\nAnd then her grandchild didn\u2019t understand<br \/>\nBut she didn\u2019t ask<br \/>\nFor their understanding<br \/>\nJust to be heard<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So she left them behind<br \/>\nIn a desperate silence<br \/>\nShe prayed<br \/>\nShe asked for<br \/>\nForgiveness<br \/>\nShe pleaded for<br \/>\nGuidance<br \/>\nShe begged for<br \/>\nRepentance<br \/>\nShe wept for<br \/>\nRedemption<br \/>\nEven though her answer<br \/>\nNever came<br \/>\nShe prayed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little girl knelt Her hands together And head bowed She prayed She asked for Forgiveness She pleaded for Guidance She begged for Repentance She wept for Redemption She prayed hoping for an answer That never came She picked up her head Her soft hair falling And looked at the stars She asked silently God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[76,78,77,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}