{"id":338,"date":"2010-08-04T03:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:26:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:26:30","slug":"it-is","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-1999\/it-is","title":{"rendered":"It Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 1999-02-11<br \/>\nRevised 1999-02-11<\/em><\/h5>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<pre>It is so easy to fear the unpredictable\r\nThe unexpected moment where peril lay waiting\r\nAs the foundation crumbles silently underfoot\r\n\r\nIt is so easy to hold tightly to dreams\r\nMusings of the heart kept safe and protected\r\nWhile the walls tremble in the wind\r\n\r\nIt is so easy to speak of trust\r\nPaying lip service to a wish, homage in anxiety,\r\nWhile the mind sinks into faithless despair\r\n\r\nIt is so easy to love\r\nIt is so easy to forgive\r\nIt is so easy to forget...\r\n\r\nIt is so easy to lose\r\nWhen in waiting to give everything\r\nThe past is repeated\r\nThe present is sacrificed\r\nThe future is forsaken\r\n\r\nIt is so easy to love\r\nIt is so hard to learn\r\nIt is so needful to hope\r\nIt is so useless to fear\r\n\r\nIt is\r\n        who we are\r\nIt is\r\n        who we love\r\nIt is\r\n        who we become\r\n\r\nIt is everything\r\nAnd, it is nothing\r\nFor it is simply\r\n        the quiet song of the soul<\/pre>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 1999-02-11 Revised 1999-02-11 It is so easy to fear the unpredictable The unexpected moment where peril lay waiting As the foundation crumbles silently underfoot It is so easy to hold tightly to dreams Musings of the heart kept safe and protected While the walls tremble in the wind It is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":285,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}