{"id":1064,"date":"2007-06-09T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:33:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:33:24","slug":"a-trees-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"A tree&#8217;s prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/IMG_2373-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073868069015614146\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/IMG_2373-copy-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>&#8220;To the Wayfarer-<br \/>Ye who pass by and would raise your hand against me<br \/>Harken ere you harm me!<br \/>I am the heat of your hearth on cold winter nights,<br \/>The friendly shade screening you from the summer sun<br \/>My fruits are refreshing draughts,<br \/>Quenching your thirst as you journey on,<br \/>I am the beam that holds your house,<br \/>The board of your table,<br \/>The bed on which you lie,<br \/>And the timber that builds your boat,<br \/>I am the handle of your hoe,<br \/>The door of your homestead,<br \/>The wood of your cradle,<br \/>And the shell of your coffin.<br \/>I am the bread of kindness and the flower of beauty.<br \/>Ye who pass by, listen to my prayer; harm me not.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A notice originally found nailed to a tree in Seville, Spain and found by me reprinted at the local arboretum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To the Wayfarer-Ye who pass by and would raise your hand against meHarken ere you harm me!I am the heat of your hearth on cold winter nights,The friendly shade screening you from the summer sunMy fruits are refreshing draughts,Quenching your thirst as you journey on,I am the beam that holds your house,The board of your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A tree&#8217;s prayer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}