{"id":448,"date":"2025-01-22T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=448"},"modified":"2025-01-31T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T09:05:13","slug":"one-hell-of-a-caddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"One Hell of a Caddy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wrote this one over the past weekend when I experienced for about the millionth time that bittersweet longing and painful love and groaning for the life I was (you were, we all were) made for &#8212; the life of God.<br><br>This is one of the most common themes of all the poems I write. I ache for the life of God and grieve at my fickleness and wildly celebrate that God is bigger than all of that.<br><br>The poem&#8217;s title comes from one of my favorite movie scenes ever: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Mk2Tca88Xo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Mk2Tca88Xo<\/a> &#8230; The &#8220;seven grand&#8221; is the 7000 in 1 Kings 19:18.<br><br>Would love to hear any comments or questions or thoughts or anything at john@ichthusmhk.org &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/poem-ONE-HELL-OF-A-CADDY.png?resize=184%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-449\" style=\"width:277px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/poem-ONE-HELL-OF-A-CADDY.png?w=184&amp;ssl=1 184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/poem-ONE-HELL-OF-A-CADDY.png?resize=145%2C300&amp;ssl=1 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrote this one over the past weekend when I experienced for about the millionth time that bittersweet longing and painful love and groaning for the life I was (you were, we all were) made for &#8212; the life of God. This is one of the most common themes of all the poems I write. I [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","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\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}