{"id":20143,"date":"2012-11-02T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=20143"},"modified":"2012-11-02T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T20:00:40","slug":"i-am-wounded-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/i-am-wounded-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Wounded Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/GetOutOfYourChains.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcorbitbrown.com\/Paul_Corbit_Brown\/Blog\/Entries\/2006\/12\/3_I_Am_Wounded_Daily.html\" target=\"_blank\">PaulCorbitBrown.com<\/a> | \u201cWe are called to do no great things, only small things with great Love.\u201d &#8211; Mother Teresa<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><center><br \/>\nI am wounded daily<br \/>\nAnd I know you are too.<\/p>\n<p>I am wounded daily when they<br \/>\nInvoke the name of God<br \/>\nAs a manipulation<br \/>\nTo make me in their own image.<\/p>\n<p>I am wounded daily<br \/>\nWhen they use the spirit of God<br \/>\nTo divide us<br \/>\nAnd to marginalize those who<br \/>\nPerceive God differently.<\/p>\n<p>I am wounded daily<br \/>\nWhen they claim the will of God<br \/>\nTo justify murder and violence<br \/>\nAnd the subjugation of the weak.<\/p>\n<p>They claw and tear and rape<br \/>\nThe bosom of our mother<br \/>\nAnd yet demand to be fed<br \/>\nEver more lavish dishes.<\/p>\n<p>They hold the weak in thrall<br \/>\nThrough chains, murder, mutilation and law<br \/>\nSo we can have cheap diamonds and oil<br \/>\nAnd 24 hour purveyance at super centers and malls.<\/p>\n<p>I think of the children<br \/>\nStarving on the streets<br \/>\nWhile women suffer in prison for<br \/>\nKnowing they could not feed the child<br \/>\nGiven without consent.<\/p>\n<p>I grieve for the apathy that abounds<br \/>\nWhile abundance is squandered.<\/p>\n<p>I am wounded daily<br \/>\nAnd I know you are as well.<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcorbitbrown.com\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Corbit Brown<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PaulCorbitBrown.com | \u201cWe are called to do no great things, only small things with great Love.\u201d &#8211; Mother Teresa I am wounded daily And I know you are too. I am wounded daily when they Invoke the name of God As a manipulation To make me in their own image. I am wounded daily When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[414,834],"class_list":["post-20143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-manipulation","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}