{"id":3198,"date":"2024-08-01T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2024-08-01T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:26:30","slug":"kids-will-be-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/08\/01\/kids-will-be-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Will Be Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n <\/p>\n

Kids Will Be Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Wise One –
\nOkay, Jesus –
\nSaid that if
\nWe want to Enter
\nWhat He called
\nHeaven,
\n(Who Doesn\u2019t?)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Necessary to
\nBecome a Kid
\nAgain.<\/p>\n

I used to Think
\nthat\u2019s because
\nKids are All
\nInnocent and
\nUntarnished by
\nSin, but
\nI don\u2019t Think It\u2019s That.<\/p>\n

I Think It\u2019s Because
\nKids Believe in
\nMagic
\nand Have
\nImaginary Friends
\nand Believe
\nPlay
\nis an Inalienable Right
\nand Imagine
\nThey Can
\nBe Anything
\nThey Want To Be.<\/p>\n

You probably don\u2019t
\nwant to Know
\nWhat Jesus said
\nShould Happen to
\nGrownups Who Try to
\nConvince Them
\nOtherwise.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Robert Collins; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Kids Will Be Kids A Wise One – Okay, Jesus – Said that if We want to Enter What He called Heaven, (Who Doesn\u2019t?) It\u2019s Necessary to Become a Kid Again. I used to Think that\u2019s because Kids are All Innocent and Untarnished by Sin, but I don\u2019t Think It\u2019s That. I Think It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}