{"id":2940,"date":"2017-02-08T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=2940"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T15:06:41","slug":"child-of-the-wise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/poetry\/child-of-the-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Child of the Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Child of the Wise<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">as I approached the shore<br \/>\nI came across a drowning girl<br \/>\nI reached out and exclaimed &#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;child, take hold my hand<br \/>\nand I will guide you ashore!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">but the girl answered,<br \/>\n&#8220;if I cannot save myself,<br \/>\nwho will save me once your guiding hand is spent?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">I told her,<br \/>\n&#8220;you are wise young one, you are wise.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">I walked away &#8212; for certainly she spoke true<br \/>\nnot a moment later, the girl succumbed to the sea bed below<br \/>\nand my heart sank with her and got spent there<br \/>\nand I cynically lamented,<br \/>\n&#8220;did she not drown a child of the wise?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2941\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10407494_799852820130724_4644360973383563007_n-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10407494_799852820130724_4644360973383563007_n-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10407494_799852820130724_4644360973383563007_n-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10407494_799852820130724_4644360973383563007_n-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10407494_799852820130724_4644360973383563007_n.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a9 bb - all rights reserved \u2013 circa. 1996<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child of the Wise as I approached the shore I came across a drowning girl I reached out and exclaimed &#8212; &#8220;child, take hold my hand and I will guide you ashore!&#8221; but the girl answered, &#8220;if I cannot save myself, who will save me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2941,"parent":2808,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2940\/revisions\/4321"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}