{"id":4963,"date":"2015-05-17T20:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2015-05-17T20:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:38:59","slug":"bent-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"BENT EXPECTATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Beautiful-world.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4964\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Beautiful-world-300x175.png\" alt=\"Beautiful world\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Sparks of life<br \/>\nWondrously fashioned, awesomely gifted<br \/>\nPlaced in the bowels of terrestrial splendour<br \/>\nImbued with life in joyous movement<\/p>\n<p>The elements converge<br \/>\nGlorious sights splay vast distances<br \/>\nThe creatures alive in reverential worship<br \/>\nAnd nature resounds the unity of purpose<\/p>\n<p>But the urchins so graciously pampered<br \/>\nSatiated with boundless pleasures<br \/>\nCavort the plains in boundless huff<br \/>\nThe wish to serve eclipsed in the bud<\/p>\n<p>In the puffed notions of conceited ego<br \/>\nThe quest for gold cum that for lordship<br \/>\nImmerse the souls in flagrant disregard<br \/>\nOf the conduit of light and life<\/p>\n<p>Now with the closing of the age<br \/>\nThe will can&#8217;t hold back the raging storm<br \/>\nThe urchins cry out in self-righteous pain<br \/>\nBlasting off the most vociferous complaints<br \/>\nFor their votive offerings did not ascend<\/p>\n<p>If only we could look about us<br \/>\nCome down from our imagined heights<br \/>\nThen it could chance come to our lot<br \/>\nThat a drop of water wets the arid land<br \/>\nAnd a wisp of air cools the blazing heat<\/p>\n<p>Laura McDonald-Amurun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparks of life Wondrously fashioned, awesomely gifted Placed in the bowels of terrestrial splendour Imbued with life in joyous movement The elements converge Glorious sights splay vast distances The creatures alive in reverential worship And nature resounds the unity of purpose But the urchins so graciously pampered Satiated with boundless pleasures Cavort the plains in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Beautiful-world.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1i3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}