{"id":499,"date":"2017-03-21T00:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2017-03-21T00:34:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:34:45","slug":"guardian-angel-by-rolf-jacobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Guardian Angel&#8221; by Rolf Jacobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning,<br \/>\nand your closest friend, whom you can never know,<br \/>\nblossoms that light up for the blind.<\/p>\n<p>I am the glacier shining over the woods, so pale,<br \/>\nand heavy voices from the cathedral tower.<br \/>\nThe thought that suddenly hits you in the middle of the day<br \/>\nand makes you feel so fantastically happy.<\/p>\n<p>I am the one you have loved for many years.<br \/>\nI walk beside you all day and look intently at you<br \/>\nand put my mouth against your heart<br \/>\nthough you&#8217;re not aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>I am your third arm, your second<br \/>\nshadow, the white one,<br \/>\nwhom you cannot accept,<br \/>\nand who can never forget you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>trans<\/em> Robert Bly<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning, and your closest friend, whom you can never know, blossoms that light up for the blind. I am the glacier shining over the woods, so pale, and heavy voices from the cathedral tower. The thought that suddenly hits you in the middle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Guardian Angel&#8221; by Rolf Jacobson<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,40,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-lent","category-poems-for-contemplation","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}