{"id":774,"date":"2013-03-31T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:23:15","slug":"easter-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Easter Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Easter Was Hard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Easter was hard for my young mind to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate bunnies laying eggs, Mom hunched<\/p>\n<p>Over the dining room table blowing<\/p>\n<p>The insides from raw ones Dad whipped into<\/p>\n<p>a froth, scrambled, and we boys then devoured.<\/p>\n<p>Watched Mom clear the table, paint the hollow<\/p>\n<p>Shells with delicate brushes until they<\/p>\n<p>Took your breath away. While Jesus suffered,<\/p>\n<p>Died, a horrible, heartbreaking story,<\/p>\n<p>But wait! That was Good News somehow because<\/p>\n<p>God meant to kill his Son for us and Sin.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t really die.\u00c2\u00a0 You won&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p>The virgins wore hats like flowering shrubs.<\/p>\n<p>I got a new jacket, too big and white.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dEaster, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Was Hard &nbsp; Easter was hard for my young mind to grasp. Chocolate bunnies laying eggs, Mom hunched Over the dining room table blowing The insides from raw ones Dad whipped into a froth, scrambled, and we boys then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}