{"id":2376,"date":"2016-06-18T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2016-06-18T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T02:41:13","slug":"caterpillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/2016\/06\/18\/caterpillars\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Beneath a grey, complaining sun,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>we wandered, I and you,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>disconsolate and dubious,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to where the milkweed grew.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But there were \u00a0monarch caterpillars<\/em><br \/>\n<em>nestled in the &#8216;weed,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and puffy green ballooning fruit<\/em><br \/>\n<em>that scatters swan plant seed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We glimpsed \u00a0a tiny second-instar<\/em><br \/>\n<em>feasting on a leaf;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The big ones wore their velvet stripes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in black and gold relief.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Behold! He clothes the tree and worm:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>are we not God&#8217;s delight?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>O anxious heart, seek first His realm,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and He will prove His might.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; C. \u00a017 June<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath a grey, complaining sun, we wandered, I and you, disconsolate and dubious, to where the milkweed grew. But there were \u00a0monarch caterpillars nestled in the &#8216;weed, and puffy green ballooning fruit that scatters swan plant seed. We glimpsed \u00a0a tiny second-instar feasting on a leaf; The big ones wore their velvet stripes in black &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/2016\/06\/18\/caterpillars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caterpillars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,156,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongsworship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}