{"id":381,"date":"2016-02-14T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T08:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2016-02-14T08:45:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T08:45:01","slug":"college-poem-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"College poem #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Final Hour\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I lift up to You a prayer for strength in the final hour.<br \/>\nI pray that Your people would finish strong, whether the end be sweet or sour.<br \/>\nIn so many ways, even Your followers who fellowship with You every day<br \/>\nCan allow the interests and tasks of life to draw them out of Your way.<br \/>\nToday it is so easy, it seems, to become distracted by the world and lose the fire<br \/>\nThat was once so brightly lit in our hearts &#8211; to give up when we begin to tire.<br \/>\nI pray that You would give us the strength to finish well, like Peter and Paul<br \/>\nAnd so many others who, in their time, faithfully in You stood tall.<br \/>\nThe end of the race seems very close &#8211; the finish line seems close at hand.<br \/>\nMay we walk closer with You, so that, when the final hour comes, in Jesus\u2019 name we may without fear stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Final Hour\u201d Lord, I lift up to You a prayer for strength in the final hour. I pray that Your people would finish strong, whether the end be sweet or sour. In so many ways, even Your followers who fellowship with You every day Can allow the interests and tasks of life to draw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College poem #13<\/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-69","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}