{"id":31293,"date":"2016-05-04T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-today-i-cry\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:01:28","slug":"writers-weir-today-i-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-today-i-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Today I Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today I cry! I cry for the world<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I cry for myself, my family, my friends and those I do not know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I cry! I cry because we are given the gift of language but we use words of hate against each other.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I cry! I cry because we have our religions, beliefs and our love of them. Yet we use our love to judge, terrorize and kill each other.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I cry! I cry because we are given the gift of thought and reason. Yet we use it to justify unloving acts against one another.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I cry! I cry for I am a part of this world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I cry! I cry because I know better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I cry! I cry because I desire a world that uses the gift of language in a loving way. A world in which our love of religion and beliefs only creates more love. A world in which thought and reason are used to create loving solutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I cry! I cry tears of joy for the vision of this world and the vision of my contribution towards the unfolding of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I smile!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Viki Kibodeaux recently moved to Juneau from the Lower 48 to work with Juneau Youth Services. She\u2019s a bit of a nomad, having lived in several southern states, and is the mother of one son and grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I cry! I cry for the world I cry for myself, my family, my friends and those I do not know. Today I cry! I cry because we are given the gift of language but we use words of hate against each other. Today I cry! I cry because we have our religions, beliefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31293"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}