{"id":24276,"date":"2020-10-16T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=24276"},"modified":"2020-10-16T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:06:03","slug":"have-compassion-for-the-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=24276","title":{"rendered":"Have compassion for the unhappy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Ring a ring roses<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A pocket full of posies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Atishoo Atishoo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We all fall down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fear of your friend<\/p>\n<p>your neighbour<\/p>\n<p>your fellow worker.<\/p>\n<p>Fear the stranger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stretch out a hand but<\/p>\n<p>don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t clasp. Seize what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left<\/p>\n<p>on the floor<\/p>\n<p>against the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The kiss. The embrace.<\/p>\n<p>We have feelings but can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t touch.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shields shielding the shielded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hemmed in. Trapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our lips move. Our eyes see.<\/p>\n<p>We hear. But we are not there.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re global. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re local.<\/p>\n<p>We could be in our living room.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lift up your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <em>The Lark Ascending*<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>*The Decameron \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Giovanni Boccaccio<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Vaughan Williams<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Joy Johnson <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stretch out a hand but<\/p>\n<p>don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t clasp. Seize what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left<\/p>\n<p>on the floor<\/p>\n<p>against the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1323,27,1295,576],"wps_subtitle":"In this latest powerful poem, Joy Johnson urges us all to have more compassion","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24276"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24286,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276\/revisions\/24286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}