{"id":16610,"date":"2016-10-10T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2016-10-09T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T01:43:48","slug":"willow-weeps-october-10-2016-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/willow-weeps-october-10-2016-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Willow Weeps, October 10, 2016 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16612\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16612\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16612\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Weeping-Willow-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Weeping Willow 2016 Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Weeping-Willow-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Weeping-Willow-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Weeping-Willow.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weeping Willow 2016 Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The willow weeps for humanity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Its wispy branches droop to the grass below<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Flutter as they may in the slightest winds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They cannot stretch to the skies, sun, or moon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s destiny is to reach the ground below<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hiding within its presence the core of its being<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It exists simply as a tree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s beauty like the artwork of God recognized by many<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s sadness known to all<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why does the willow weep?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It weeps for what it has witnessed through the neglect of creation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the people who have died in vain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the animals misplaced by the over development of humanity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Due to the selfishness of the human race<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What has the willow seen, witnessed, and felt?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Will the willow&#8217;s weeping touch our souls and change our paths?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Perhaps, that is why the willow weeps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Willow Weeps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[513,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}