{"id":403,"date":"2013-11-18T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:20:45","slug":"smile-of-wonderment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"smile of wonderment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/images\/lightpole.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I peer from the pier<br \/>\nalong the plane of water<br \/>\ncalled ocean<br \/>\nto the land&#8217;s edge<br \/>\nwhere the beach<br \/>\nis before<br \/>\nhighly priced houses<br \/>\nstretched across<br \/>\nthe southbound shore<br \/>\nshrouded<br \/>\nby a gray sky&#8230;..<br \/>\nnormally<br \/>\non such<br \/>\na sunless morning<br \/>\nI&#8217;d feel a teardrop<br \/>\nof sadness on my cheek<br \/>\nnot an usual occurrence<br \/>\nfor a depressive like me<br \/>\nbut not today<br \/>\neven when<br \/>\nthe light pole<br \/>\nin front of me<br \/>\nitself\u00a0\u00a0 ~<br \/>\nbeams no light&#8230; giving<br \/>\nno hope for<br \/>\na bright sky<br \/>\nand yet<br \/>\nsun rays\u00a0\u00a0 ~<br \/>\nsuddenly<br \/>\nspread open<br \/>\nthe clouds&#8230;. reaching<br \/>\ndown&#8230;. touching<br \/>\nthat pole&#8230;.. making<br \/>\nit a beacon<br \/>\nof encouragement<br \/>\nmy spirit is uplifted<br \/>\n&#8217;cause<br \/>\nthe smile of wonderment<br \/>\nbegins to shine<br \/>\non my face<\/p>\n<p>Image &amp; Words by\u00a0\u00a0 ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I peer from the pier along the plane of water called ocean to the land&#8217;s edge where the beach is before highly priced houses stretched across the southbound shore shrouded by a gray sky&#8230;.. normally on such a sunless morning I&#8217;d feel a teardrop of sadness on my cheek not an usual occurrence for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;smile of wonderment&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagewords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}