{"id":92,"date":"2006-03-31T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2013-07-03T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:55:24","slug":"doing-poetry-and-dealing-with-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Doing Poetry and Dealing with Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">One of the fun parts of blogging is encountering other people. Recently <a href=\"http:\/\/foryourgood.blogspot.com\/\">Derek Brown<\/a> visited this site and I followed the link back to his blog. There I found a poem he has written entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/foryourgood.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/unless-heart-is-broken.html\">Unless the Heart is Broken.&#8221;\u009d<\/a> If you have read this blog much, you know that I encourage the use of poetry in various ways. I really enjoyed Derek&#8217;s poem as it dealt with the struggle of pride and our need for humility.Here are the opening lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\">Unless the heart is broken<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">True love to Christ cannot flow<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Only a heart that is broken<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Can the beauty of Christ know<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foryourgood.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/unless-heart-is-broken.html\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun parts of blogging is encountering other people. Recently Derek Brown visited this site and I followed the link back to his blog. There I found a poem he has written entitled, &#8220;Unless the Heart is Broken.&#8221;\u009d If you have read this blog much, you know that I encourage the use of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Doing Poetry and Dealing with Pride&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}