{"id":4564,"date":"2013-03-19T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T02:23:19","slug":"mission-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2013\/mission-of-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The robins came in the rain<br \/>\nTo take the worms away.<br \/>\nMother told me they were drowning<br \/>\nAnd the birds lent their wings<br \/>\nFor a rescue mission<br \/>\nThat taught the creatures<br \/>\nOf the earth, what the sky<br \/>\nFelt like beyond just a dream.<br \/>\nThat the robins whisked them away<br \/>\nFrom mud puddles deeper<br \/>\nThan the well I watch Father dig<br \/>\nThat seemed to stretch from earth<br \/>\nBack to sky all over again.<br \/>\nMother told me worms couldn\u2019t swim<br \/>\nBecause their arms never grew right.<br \/>\nKind of like how I never grew right.<br \/>\nWill the robins save me<br \/>\nWhen the waters come too high?<br \/>\n<em>Of course they will honey,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And they will teach you to fly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But Mother lied.<br \/>\nI watch the robin\u2019s beak pierce<br \/>\nThe earth like a kraken\u2019s claw<br \/>\nDividing land from sea<br \/>\nBut the way was not clear<br \/>\nAnd the sojourners never made it through.<br \/>\nThe worms surface from the earth<br \/>\nHoping to find air that wasn\u2019t drowning<br \/>\nIn water, but the water was rising fast<br \/>\nInto a flood that would sweep them away.<br \/>\nThe jaws of hungry animals<br \/>\nPried into the earth and wrenched<br \/>\nTheir bodies from the softened ground<br \/>\nLike daisies fresh for picking<br \/>\nEven though they were ready,<br \/>\nThey where ripped from their roots<br \/>\nBody, soul, and all to be devoured<br \/>\nIt was no rescue mission but a massacre masked<br \/>\nIn the form of a red breasted beast<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I sat watching through fogged windows<br \/>\nAnd wondered, if these monsters with wings<br \/>\nVeiled their murder in missions of mercy<br \/>\nWhat would my rescuer be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robins came in the rain To take the worms away. Mother told me they were drowning And the birds lent their wings For a rescue mission That taught the creatures Of the earth, what the sky Felt like beyond just a dream. That the robins whisked them away From mud puddles deeper Than the [&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":[2051,1484,189,1318,2055,2056,2053,328,222,537,2054,2052,2048],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564"}],"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=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}