{"id":1616,"date":"2015-09-24T14:08:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:08:42","slug":"lets-keep-our-thoughts-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Keep Our Thoughts Private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s Keep Our Thoughts Private<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how it would be<br \/>\nIf others could read your mind &amp; see what you see?<br \/>\nYou may think that would be fun.<br \/>\nBut, soon, you would be on the run.<br \/>\nPrivacy would be nonexistent at best.<br \/>\nYou would bare it all , putting all doubt to rest.<br \/>\nMany thoughts you don\u2019t want others to know.<br \/>\nTheir reaction could be a real show.<br \/>\nForget guilt and shame.<br \/>\nSwallow them with the rest of your pain.<br \/>\nYou would want to read others thoughts too.<br \/>\nEven the ground. Know what they think of you.<br \/>\nI have a hunch things could get nasty.<br \/>\nAt least you would never be a patsy.<br \/>\nWhat about the thoughts of those who are mentally ill?<br \/>\nCould you handle that with any type of skill?<br \/>\nNo. It would be a very unpleasant thing.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want to hear others thoughts ring.<br \/>\nThink of God, who can hear all of our thoughts.<br \/>\nBare to Him our souls, &amp; that\u2019s a lot.<br \/>\nHis love for us knows no bounds.<br \/>\nHearing our thoughts &amp; He stays around.<br \/>\nThat is beyond my comprehension.<br \/>\nI am glad it\u2019s not me, but it is Him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s Keep Our Thoughts Private Have you ever wondered how it would be If others could read your mind &amp; see what you see? You may think that would be fun. But, soon, you would be on the run. Privacy would be nonexistent at best. You would bare it all , putting all doubt to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Keep Our Thoughts Private<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16,29,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-random","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}