{"id":1888,"date":"2016-06-30T18:32:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2016-07-01T19:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T02:12:52","slug":"through-his-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Through a Child&#8217;s Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150127.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1889\" \/><\/a>Watching my second rainbow of the day and thinking of some lyrics by Don Wyrtzen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was just a child I knew<br \/>\nWhy rain fell and flowers grew<br \/>\nThe I believe came easy then<br \/>\nAnd I can still remember when&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The words convict me.<\/p>\n<p>Because for most of the afternoon I\u2019ve been filling out a loan form, drafting a financial statement and making budget projections\u2014things that, predictably, make me anxious.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remember.<\/p>\n<p>A time when I possessed far less, yet trusted far more.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, help me see through the eyes of a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching my second rainbow of the day and thinking of some lyrics by Don Wyrtzen. &#8220;When I was just a child I knew Why rain fell and flowers grew The I believe came easy then And I can still remember when&#8221; The words convict me. Because for most of the afternoon I\u2019ve been filling out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}