{"id":658,"date":"2017-01-05T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T07:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T07:30:29","slug":"senate-prayer-for-personal-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Senate Prayer for Personal Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/palouse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-698\" src=\"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/palouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/palouse.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/palouse-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/palouse-768x308.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/palouse-1024x411.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear God, please hear these words.<br \/>\nDear God,<br \/>\nCalm my rapid heart,<br \/>\nDriven by desire for things<br \/>\nI should not have<br \/>\nFor they do not mean love.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God,<br \/>\nQuiet my rattling brain;<br \/>\nThoughts drive plans<br \/>\nI should let go<br \/>\nFor they do not mean wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God,<\/p>\n<p>Ease my weary body,<br \/>\nBurdened with injuries<br \/>\nOf intemperate youth,<br \/>\nFor this corpse cannot touch eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God,<\/p>\n<p>Hush my childish words,<br \/>\nThey are mere animal sounds<br \/>\nSnarls to dominate or scare,<br \/>\nFor such effort lies far from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Only through the peace of knowing you<br \/>\nCan the joy of this world shine through.<\/p>\n<p>16 Feb 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God, please hear these words. Dear God, Calm my rapid heart, Driven by desire for things I should not have For they do not mean love. Dear God, Quiet my rattling brain; Thoughts drive plans I should let go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}