{"id":2259,"date":"2022-12-11T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:54:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:54:37","slug":"the-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/11\/the-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The birds had scantly noticed<br \/>\nAs I hanged above their nest,<br \/>\nWhich they built of moss and leaf<br \/>\nFor their young to take their rest.<\/p>\n<p>I was no ugly duckling<br \/>\nWhen the squirrels laughed at me<br \/>\nAnd threw me paw to paw<br \/>\nBeneath my parent tree.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll remember fondly,<br \/>\nAll their laughter, all their jokes,<br \/>\nThough an acorn when they knew me,<br \/>\nI shall be great amongst the oaks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Benshana<\/p>\n<p>If You Are A Child These Are For You<\/p>\n<p>Poems by Sh\u00e4nne Sands and Daniel Benshana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birds had scantly noticed As I hanged above their nest, Which they built of moss and leaf For their young to take their rest. I was no ugly duckling When the squirrels laughed at me And threw me paw to paw Beneath my parent tree. But I&#8217;ll remember fondly, All their laughter, all their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[183,362,650,719],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-daniel-benshana","tag-if-you-are-a-child-these-are-for-you","tag-shanne-sands","tag-the-promise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}