{"id":180,"date":"2021-12-09T14:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=180"},"modified":"2021-12-09T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:50:49","slug":"identity-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Identity I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hmm, it&#8217;s been a while. \ud83d\ude42<br><br>I called this one Identity I because apparently I intended to write several on the same theme. I haven&#8217;t yet (and I wrote this one nearly 3 1\/2 years ago), but I like the thought.<br><br>I <em>do<\/em> like, even with no sequels written yet, the way the I (as opposed to an Arabic numeral 1) fits with the theme.<br><br>What I also like about posting this poem now is that I wrote it when there was still a thorn in my soul &#8230; so the experiential component of it was typically conflicted and bittersweet. <br><br>I can access the truth of it by faith to a degree now, to let myself feel joy in the love of God, and I am grateful yet again for the different place I am in now compared to then.<br><br>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/poem-IDENTITY-I.png?resize=190%2C371&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" width=\"190\" height=\"371\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, it&#8217;s been a while. \ud83d\ude42 I called this one Identity I because apparently I intended to write several on the same theme. I haven&#8217;t yet (and I wrote this one nearly 3 1\/2 years ago), but I like the thought. I do like, even with no sequels written yet, the way the I (as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}