{"id":315,"date":"2021-04-21T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:34:32","slug":"ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re so good,\u201d they told her.<br>\u201cA perfect example of goodness and grace\u2014<br>A role model people can look up to.\u201d<br>And with this message, she staked her flag,<br>Mapped out the house, drew the borders,<br>Carved out the earth, laid the foundation,<br>And built the home\u2014<br>One false brick after the other,<br>Each fashioned through willful labor and toil;<br>Each infused with doubt and pain\u2014<br>A beautiful home.<br>Cedar beams outline the solid walls,<br>Mirthful colors paint the landscape;<br>Sturdy, strong, unshakable\u2014good.<br><em>Every day it falls to the ground. And every day she builds it again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selfless, beautiful, kind\u2014the ideal woman.<br>She\u2019s spent hours reading on wisdom and truth;<br>Days learning about love; and years saving herself,<br>Preparing for her life.<br>She knows exactly what she\u2019s doing;<br>Knows exactly where she\u2019s going.<br>She will never stumble; she will never fall.<br>She is the ideal woman.<br>Flawless, without mark.<br>Everyone applauds her, everyone admires her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How could they know?<br>Every day her home crumbles, falls, and every day she rebuilds it again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019re so good,\u201d they told her.\u201cA perfect example of goodness and grace\u2014A role model people can look up to.\u201dAnd with this message, she staked her flag,Mapped out the house, drew the borders,Carved out the earth, laid the foundation,And built the home\u2014One false brick after the other,Each fashioned through willful labor and toil;Each infused with doubt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-inner-turmoil","tag-legalism","tag-perfectionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}