{"id":1657,"date":"2009-02-27T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:44","slug":"poetry-friday-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3199417045\/in\/set-72157605934794973\/\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3423\/3199417045_ea3e4d4847.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a>Courage<\/p>\n<p>Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.<\/p>\n<p>The soul that knows it not, knows no release<\/p>\n<p>From little things.<\/p>\n<p>Knows not the livid loneliness of fear<\/p>\n<p>Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear<\/p>\n<p>The sound of wings.<\/p>\n<p>How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate<\/p>\n<p>For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate<\/p>\n<p>Unless we dare<\/p>\n<p>The soul&#8217;s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay<\/p>\n<p>With courage to behold resistless day<\/p>\n<p>And count it fair.<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Amelia Earhart, 1927<\/p>\n<p>appeared in Survey magazine<\/p>\n<p>July 1, 1928 p. 60<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Friday is at <a href=\"http:\/\/favoritechildrensbooks.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/poetry-friday-february-27-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mommy&#8217;s Favorite Children&#8217;s Books<\/a>, I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courage Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things. Knows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}