{"id":3456,"date":"2025-08-22T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:29:28","slug":"mummy-how-did-god-make-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/mummy-how-did-god-make-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mummy How Did God Make Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mummy How Did God Make Me?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(For Daniel my son, aged 6)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">God made you out of a puff of air &#8211;<br \/>\nSomewhere from heaven near to earth &#8211;<br \/>\nMingled you with all my dreams<br \/>\nBound with tears left from my youth &#8211;<br \/>\nCaressed you with Truth\u2019s own breath &#8211;<br \/>\nWashed and pure, wisely blessed &#8211;<br \/>\nFrom millions of silver seeds,<br \/>\nPurple gems, strange yet lovely fruits<br \/>\nFed your ivory-cells with sweets and<br \/>\nFlowers, scents and wines.<\/p>\n<p>He bubbled you to life out of poems<br \/>\nOnce divine; filled with prayers all mine &#8211;<br \/>\nFrom laughter, song, dance and golden fields,<br \/>\nHot spice and tiny birds, then he took your<br \/>\nSoul from His own heart, your blood from rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>Your hands, eyes, mouth, feet, your skin, tongue,<br \/>\nCheeks, ears, legs, back, spine, guts and voice,<br \/>\nBones, hair, teeth and lungs from all<br \/>\nMy kisses given to your father.<br \/>\nThen God made you mine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sh\u00e4nne Sands<\/p>\n<p>From The Silver hooves published by FootSteps Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mummy How Did God Make Me? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(For Daniel my son, aged 6) God made you out of a puff of air &#8211; Somewhere from heaven near to earth &#8211; Mingled you with all my dreams Bound with tears left from my youth &#8211; Caressed you with Truth\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1260,1259,650,722],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-how-did-god-make-me","tag-mummy","tag-shanne-sands","tag-the-silver-hooves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}