{"id":21,"date":"2009-10-19T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-10-19T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:50:50","slug":"broken-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Broken pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stitch together<br \/>\nthese broken pieces of my heart<br \/>\none solitary loop at a time<br \/>\nshattered shreds of happiness<br \/>\ninto bundles of joy<\/p>\n<p>I search behind the sofa for my soul<br \/>\nI fold together two single socks<\/p>\n<p>I feel such a gratitude for the brokenness<br \/>\nfor the gallons of tears and moments<br \/>\nof timeless despair<br \/>\nwith the drip drop of the faucet<\/p>\n<p>What did my wandering muse find in the dusty closet<br \/>\nwaiting for the drapes to be thrown aside?<br \/>\nwhat haunting shade of amber<br \/>\ndid the color of my longing turn?<br \/>\na lifeless creature encased in hopeless pride<\/p>\n<p>In gratitude I know no other words to say<br \/>\nbut that broken pieces never really go away<br \/>\ngain richness in their seeking home<br \/>\nand in returning<br \/>\nbless me with the gift of song<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stitch together these broken pieces of my heart one solitary loop at a time shattered shreds of happiness into bundles of joy I search behind the sofa for my soul I fold together two single socks I feel such a gratitude for the brokenness for the gallons of tears and moments of timeless despair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccahartka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}