{"id":292,"date":"2023-04-18T02:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=292"},"modified":"2023-04-18T02:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T07:34:42","slug":"e-pluribus-unum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"E Pluribus Unum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This poem is one of the many many MANY I have written in these last years as a way to try to cooperate\/endure\/stay in the forge. The more exquisite the creation (we human beings), the more the potential for ruin, and I feel that &#8212; SO fragmented and disintegrated at times. Can one ever feel whole? It can get crazy &#8230; dark &#8230; crazy dark. (Is anyone else thinking of &#8220;sharks with lasers &#8212; laser sharks&#8221; from <em>The Lego Movie<\/em> right now?)<br><br>Anyway, God. And the occasional rare treasure of someone who just won&#8217;t give up on you even when you rake them through the emotional coals. And the dogged tenacity he puts in our souls to endure. I think God gets a kick out of things like this poem and whatever and whoever in your own lives gives you perspective and lightens the groaning load.<br><\/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\/2023\/04\/poem-E-PLURIBUS-UNUM.png?resize=416%2C458&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293\" width=\"416\" height=\"458\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is one of the many many MANY I have written in these last years as a way to try to cooperate\/endure\/stay in the forge. The more exquisite the creation (we human beings), the more the potential for ruin, and I feel that &#8212; SO fragmented and disintegrated at times. Can one ever feel [&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":"Enjoy!","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-292","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\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}