{"id":393,"date":"2007-06-29T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/29\/vindicated\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T22:35:04","slug":"vindicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/29\/vindicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Vindicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/bee-with-pollen.jpg\" title=\"bee-with-pollen.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/bee-with-pollen.jpg\" title=\"bee-with-pollen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/bee-with-pollen.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bee on seed head\" title=\"Bee on seed head\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Always, throughout my years,<br \/>\nI was prepared to spend<br \/>\nlong hours looking.<br \/>\nJust looking.<br \/>\nStars, raindrop<br \/>\non a twig,<br \/>\na spider\u2019s web,<br \/>\nstripes on a blade of grass,<br \/>\nthe seedhead and the bee.<br \/>\nMountain, leopard, cloud.<br \/>\nWind and water. Wheat.<br \/>\nWho will do things?<br \/>\nHow will they get done<br \/>\nif you\u2019re a dreamer?<br \/>\nIf everyone \u2026<br \/>\nSo the story ran.<br \/>\nThe hours were truant, stolen,<br \/>\nrumoured to be lost.<br \/>\nBut still I sought them out,<br \/>\nstubbornly, hungrily.<br \/>\nNow I know<br \/>\nthese were the only hours<br \/>\nthat were right.<br \/>\nAll bustle, bother, wringing<br \/>\nof hands<br \/>\nhas blown out of time.<br \/>\nAnd here I am, still<br \/>\nkneeling by a flower,<br \/>\nsteeped<br \/>\nin eternity: home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lynne Bryer<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: pdphoto.org)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always, throughout my years, I was prepared to spend long hours looking. Just looking. Stars, raindrop on a twig, a spider\u2019s web, stripes on a blade of grass, the seedhead and the bee. Mountain, leopard, cloud. Wind and water. Wheat. Who will do things? How will they get done if you\u2019re a dreamer? If everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","category-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-6l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}