{"id":21,"date":"1997-10-27T00:13:35","date_gmt":"1997-10-27T04:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greasymonkey.net\/MonkeyBLOG\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-07-05T00:13:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:13:55","slug":"dan-derheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Dan Derheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem Dan wrote on Earthday. The Monkey hopes you enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Dig&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The responsibilities of life<br \/>\nconfuse the soul<br \/>\nto the extent that we no longer know who we are.<br \/>\nWe do not recognize our own species as our family<br \/>\nlet alone respect other species.<br \/>\nUnless a plant provides us beauty or food<br \/>\nwe do not honor it&#8217;s coexistence with us in time.<br \/>\nThere is no other purpose to being<br \/>\nexcept for our responsibility to our soul<br \/>\nand to the other souls of this beautiful but lonely world.<\/p>\n<p>by Dan Derheimer<br \/>\nCopright 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem Dan wrote on Earthday. The Monkey hopes you enjoy! Dig&#8230; Our Purpose The responsibilities of life confuse the soul to the extent that we no longer know who we are. We do not recognize our own species as our family let alone respect other species. Unless a plant provides us beauty or food &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dan Derheimer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7SmAb-l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}