{"id":125,"date":"2017-12-07T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-12-07T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:40:46","slug":"last-year-at-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Last Year at this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/11863352_10153532094363948_2569139559499897433_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-127 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/11863352_10153532094363948_2569139559499897433_n-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/11863352_10153532094363948_2569139559499897433_n-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/11863352_10153532094363948_2569139559499897433_n-768x490.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/11863352_10153532094363948_2569139559499897433_n.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a poem I wrote last year at this time. Praise God He has brought me through it and has blessed me with so many things this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;A New Year&#8217;s Introspection&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I cannot stand outside my own house and look in my window.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When gazing inward there is no mirror to reflect what is real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Phantoms of pains past haunt me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Resolutions fall lifeless to the floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I take the next step into darkness, what will I bring with me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Scars. Memories. Consequences. Fears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Moments I cling to like handfuls of smoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And grieves too heavy to bear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lord, speak to my heart and remind me of goodness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Map out where you kept pace with me on the path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Show me what could have been worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And where I strayed from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Help me walk away from the echo of my own regrets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Weave meaning into memories on my guilt eaten soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Motivate my heart toward good today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And give me the strength to venture on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a poem I wrote last year at this time. Praise God He has brought me through it and has blessed me with so many things this year. &#8220;A New Year&#8217;s Introspection&#8221; I cannot stand outside my own house and look in my window. When gazing inward there is no mirror to reflect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,3,2,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonhopkins.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}