{"id":515,"date":"2006-03-29T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2006-03-29T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T08:57:00","slug":"children-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Children and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Another excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleywatcher.com\/mt\/archives\/2006\/03\/defending_myspa.php\">article about Myspace here<\/a> by Tom Foremski with a copy of this delightful poem, which I found very appealing as a father of three great kids.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><i>Your children are not your children.<\/p>\n<p>They are the sons and daughters of Life&#8217;s longing for itself.<\/p>\n<p>They come through you but not from you,<\/p>\n<p>And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.<\/p>\n<p>You may give them your love but not your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>For they have their own thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>You may house their bodies but not their souls,<\/p>\n<p>For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.<\/p>\n<p>You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.<\/p>\n<p>For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/i>from Lebanese writer K. Gibran<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another excellent article about Myspace here by Tom Foremski with a copy of this delightful poem, which I found very appealing as a father of three great kids. Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life&#8217;s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}