{"id":1427,"date":"2014-12-12T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:03:57","slug":"life-is-quite-able","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"life is quite able"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"marker1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~ \u00a0 \u00a0as I walk this road<br \/>\nentering the land<br \/>\nfor those laid to rest<br \/>\na mixture of feelings<br \/>\nfrom sadness to joy<br \/>\nstir deeply my soul<br \/>\nwith remembrance \u00a0 ~<br \/>\n~\u00a0 \u00a0memories of lives<br \/>\nonce lived for a time<br \/>\nfacing head on reality<br \/>\neven if not knowing<br \/>\nwhat may wait ahead<br \/>\nyet amidst the struggle<br \/>\nleading them to death<br \/>\ntheir hours of effort<br \/>\nweren\u2019t left in vain \u00a0 ~<br \/>\n~ \u00a0 \u00a0as I walk this road<br \/>\nleaving the land<br \/>\nfor those laid to rest<br \/>\nI somberly, do turn<br \/>\ncasting my eyes<br \/>\none more time<br \/>\nupon the markers<br \/>\nof many lives lived<br \/>\nand smile to myself<br \/>\never so, so gently<br \/>\nfor the honor<br \/>\nof being among<br \/>\ntheir noble presence<br \/>\nbecause they in life<br \/>\nhelped to assure<br \/>\nthrough example<br \/>\nlife is quite able<br \/>\n~ \u00a0 \u00a0to go on and on<\/p>\n<p>Image &amp; Words by \u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"marker2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marker2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ \u00a0 \u00a0as I walk this road entering the land for those laid to rest a mixture of feelings from sadness to joy stir deeply my soul with remembrance \u00a0 ~ ~\u00a0 \u00a0memories of lives once lived for a time facing head on reality even if not knowing what may wait ahead yet amidst the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;life is quite able&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagewords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}