{"id":26432,"date":"1979-04-10T16:08:23","date_gmt":"1979-04-10T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26432"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:32:09","slug":"26432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26432","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Preston &#8211; Blessings (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[From &#8216;<a title=\"Bohemian Bagatelle (1979)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26383\">Bohemian Bagatelle<\/a>&#8216;, published 1979 by the Bohemians]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BLESSINGS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trees, the flowers, the raindrops,<\/p>\n<p>The sun upon the sea,<\/p>\n<p>The waves, the sands, the starlit sky,<\/p>\n<p>Are beautiful to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The snow upon the branches<\/p>\n<p>Of winter\u2019s leafless trees,<\/p>\n<p>The sparkling frosted window-pane,<\/p>\n<p>Are a delight to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sound of someone singing<\/p>\n<p>Whose voice is rich and true,<\/p>\n<p>The music of an orchestra,<\/p>\n<p>I find these lovely too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But better, far, than anything<\/p>\n<p>Is the warmth of human love,<\/p>\n<p>A hand stretched out in friendship<\/p>\n<p>Is a blessing from above.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Preston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BLESSINGS \u00a0 The trees, the flowers, the raindrops, The sun upon the sea, The waves, the sands, the starlit sky, Are beautiful to me. &nbsp; The snow upon the branches Of winter\u2019s leafless trees, The&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26432\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[248,109,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26432\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}