{"id":265,"date":"2015-12-02T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2015-12-02T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:55:02","slug":"poem-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Poem #16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrue Leadership\u201d (#16)<\/p>\n<p>Just what is it that makes a leader of men?<br \/>\nIs it statistics-one man out of ten?<br \/>\nOr, perhaps, is it something of God,<br \/>\nAnd His plan for the whole pod<br \/>\nOf humanity?  I believe the latter is true;<br \/>\nGod can make a leader out of me and you<br \/>\nIf we will open our hearts to Him and His will;<br \/>\nWe cannot be His people and still<br \/>\nHold on to ourselves.  If we believe and commit<br \/>\nOur lives to serving Him, we will emit<br \/>\nThe light of Jesus to a world deep in need<br \/>\nOf guides to the path of life.  So let us feed<br \/>\nTheir hearts, and tell them of the Bread of Life,<br \/>\nWho showed the example of a leader-enduring strife<br \/>\nWithout even a word in defense-He gave away nothing but love;<br \/>\nWho else could have done this?  Only someone with a relationship above.<br \/>\nSo I implore you, my friend, that in all you do:<br \/>\nLook at Jesus and all that He says is true,<br \/>\nAnd apply His teaching to your every-day walk on this Earth<br \/>\nUntil the day you arrive at your heavenly berth<br \/>\nSo that when the story of your life before God is told,<br \/>\nIt would not be made of hay and stubble-but of pure gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrue Leadership\u201d (#16) Just what is it that makes a leader of men? Is it statistics-one man out of ten? Or, perhaps, is it something of God, And His plan for the whole pod Of humanity? I believe the latter is true; God can make a leader out of me and you If we will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem #16<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5w0VP-4h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}