{"id":312,"date":"2015-12-22T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2015-12-22T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:06:00","slug":"poem-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Poem #34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Blind Eye to God, Open Ears to the World\u201d (#34)<\/p>\n<p>Here I suffer, a soul condemned to Hell for eternity-and you ask \u201cHow?\u201d<br \/>\n\u2018Tis because I ignored the God who kept saying \u201cYou need to accept me now.\u201d<br \/>\nI never accepted the Savior-the eyes of my heart were blind.<br \/>\nBut my ears were open to everything the world had to say-its words seemed kind.<br \/>\nI followed everything I was told about how to be popular, good-looking, and great.<br \/>\nAnd yet, when I could do no more to appease the world, it abandoned me, and left me for fish bait.<br \/>\nEven then, I turned not to God, but tried to console myself. I said that I was just like a toy placed up on a shelf.<br \/>\nWhen I passed from the world, I discovered the truth too late-I met the God I rejected face-to-face.<br \/>\nAs He said, \u201cDepart, I never knew you.\u201d I found that in Heaven I had no place.<br \/>\nSo I beg you, do not make the same mistake as I-<br \/>\nAccept the Lord today, and be received by Him high above the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Blind Eye to God, Open Ears to the World\u201d (#34) Here I suffer, a soul condemned to Hell for eternity-and you ask \u201cHow?\u201d \u2018Tis because I ignored the God who kept saying \u201cYou need to accept me now.\u201d I never accepted the Savior-the eyes of my heart were blind. But my ears were open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem #34<\/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-52","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}