{"id":2485,"date":"2020-03-05T01:14:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T01:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/?page_id=2485"},"modified":"2020-03-05T01:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T01:14:59","slug":"the-cup-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/note-to-self\/the-cup-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"the cup of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how I remember the days before<br \/>\nHow the road it was so long<br \/>\nAnd how I walked it with a song<br \/>\nNow I can see the beginning of the end<br \/>\nNow the words I sung mean something more.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I still can see the light today<br \/>\nBrighter and brighter everyday<br \/>\nHow I have moved so far away<br \/>\nWalked so far from my family and friends<br \/>\nBut here they are still walking with me.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am today standing here this way<br \/>\nHow the road it is so brief<br \/>\nAnd me with so much belief<br \/>\nThe city above is here to take me from all my grief<br \/>\nWithout enough time to see it all unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Now my sprit wanders the highways and byways<br \/>\nWhile the world sleeps, trying to wake them up<br \/>\nThere is more to life than the greed and the strife<br \/>\nThat stole me from my children and my wife<br \/>\nThere is the bread and there is the cup of life.<\/p>\n<p>Hug your children and hug your friends<br \/>\nDo this I ask, if for any reason you remember me<br \/>\nKnow that love is the only thing you really have time for<br \/>\nI am talking about the love that endures until the end<br \/>\nDo not wait for the road to end before you see.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I still have some life to live<br \/>\nI still have some time and something to give<br \/>\nA gift was given to me when I started down this road<br \/>\nIt is a gift that I can give without giving it all away<br \/>\nIt is a seed that I hope was planted in someone today<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2020 Tim D. Coulter Sr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how I remember the days before How the road it was so long And how I walked it with a song Now I can see the beginning of the end Now the words I sung mean something more. Oh, I still can see the light today Brighter and brighter everyday How I have moved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/note-to-self\/the-cup-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the cup of life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2452,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2485\/revisions\/2486"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcoulter.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}