{"id":14,"date":"2012-05-17T20:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/?p=14"},"modified":"2021-07-29T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T04:33:13","slug":"the-candle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/2012\/05\/17\/the-candle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Candle &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>So yesterday on my way home from NY my Muse snuck up behind me and hit me in the head with a balled up piece of inspiration \u2026 enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Candle \u2026 by Bob Chipman<\/p>\n<p>The flame is lit, the candle stands strong<br \/>\nYet the candle starts to cry \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The fire burns hot and the candle endures,<br \/>\nAnd the candle cries on \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The flame is bright as the candle grows smaller,<br \/>\nThe wind blows and the fire crawls higher\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And the candle cries harder\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The flame weakens as the candle grows older\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And the candle feels its flame sputtering \u2026<\/p>\n<p>soon it will be gone,<br \/>\nAnd the candle weeps softly \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A wisp of smoke,<br \/>\nAnd the candle dies \u2026<\/p>\n<p>With its purpose spent,<br \/>\na life of light and warmth,<\/p>\n<p>It leaves behind a frozen puddle of tears,<br \/>\nNot of pain, not of sorrow,<\/p>\n<p>But of Joy \u2026 and Completion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Brightest Blessings \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday on my way home from NY my Muse snuck up behind me and hit me in the head with a balled up piece of inspiration \u2026 enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/2012\/05\/17\/the-candle\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"crio-premium-page-header-override":null,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"none","crio-premium-page-header-featured-image-background":"","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}