{"id":119,"date":"2013-08-17T06:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T06:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2013-08-17T06:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T06:16:53","slug":"take-the-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"take the chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

if I don’t take the chance
\nrecognize
\nthis window
\nof opportunity
\nthat\u2019s materializing
\nbefore me
\nto transform myself
\nyes\u2026. fly
\nlike the butterfly
\nuninhibited
\nwith the wind
\ntoday will only become
\nanother yesterday
\nanother day
\nI didn\u2019t take that chance
\nto begin ~ become
\nwho I possibly could be<\/p>\n

Image & Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n

I wrote this poem after Jimmy came to me in the form of a butterfly while I was mowing the lawn a few weeks after he passed. His message to me was comfirmed later that night in a dream. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

if I don’t take the chance recognize this window of opportunity that\u2019s materializing before me to transform myself yes\u2026. fly like the butterfly uninhibited with the wind today will only become another yesterday another day I didn\u2019t take that chance to begin ~ become who I possibly could be Image & Words by ~Keith Alan … Continue reading “take the chance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiswordsforhealing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}