{"id":4700,"date":"2020-10-14T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:06:57","slug":"a-book-of-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/a-book-of-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book of Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I suppose that they must have been dead for about a year as their bleached bones lay randomly in the sand<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Their wagon had lost most of its shape and was unrecognisable apart from a blackened apron<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As I explored this pathetic theatre I found a damaged prayer book which had belonged to one of group<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There was a signature but this had faded under the desert sun and was now extinct<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I looked at the prayer book and wondered why God had allowed this evil<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What offence had these people caused as they crossed these wide plains<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I knew that there must be an answer but it had not been revealed to me<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The book suddenly fell from my grasp and fell harshly to the ground<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It shattered on impact and its prayers began to scatter caught on the hot desert winds<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I tried to retrieve them but without success and left the area soon afterwards without looking back<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many years later I passed through this desert again and found not trace of its history<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I knew that God&#8217;s word had travelled far and that these people had not died in vain<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose that they must have been dead for about a year as their bleached bones lay randomly in the sand Their wagon had lost most of its shape and was unrecognisable apart from a blackened apron As I explored this pathetic theatre I found a damaged prayer book which had belonged to one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}