{"id":753,"date":"2014-12-17T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T22:20:12","slug":"the-road-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"The Road Of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Road Of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wandering down the road of life.<\/p>\n<p>I turn to the left. I turn to the right.<\/p>\n<p>No dead ends seem to be in sight.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few rough roads .<\/p>\n<p>With ruts and some potholes.<\/p>\n<p>There were speed bumps too.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when I met you.<\/p>\n<p>There were times when I could speed.<\/p>\n<p>Other times were slow with signs to heed.<\/p>\n<p>If I didn\u2019t follow the rules.<\/p>\n<p>I paid for it like any fool.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had some wrecks along life\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve broken down, or so others say.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t win any spectacular races.<\/p>\n<p>But, I didn\u2019t lose the smiling faces.<\/p>\n<p>Loving people all around.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping my feet on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping me on the straight &amp; narrow.<\/p>\n<p>Heading truer than an arrow.<\/p>\n<p>Straight into the promised land.<\/p>\n<p>The race will end with prize in hand.&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2012)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Road Of Life Wandering down the road of life. I turn to the left. I turn to the right. No dead ends seem to be in sight. There were a few rough roads . With ruts and some potholes. There were speed bumps too. Especially when I met you. There were times when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Road Of Life<\/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":[16,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-random","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}