{"id":112657,"date":"2021-12-17T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T01:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=112657"},"modified":"2023-04-14T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:13:24","slug":"the-molder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=112657","title":{"rendered":"The Molder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: This poem appears in both sections <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=112657\">HH-6<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=122513\">FF-1<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">1\/23\/77<\/p>\n<p>I took a piece of plastic clay,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">And idly fashioned it one day,<\/span><br \/>\nAnd as my fingers pressed it still,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">It molded \u2013 yielding to my will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I came again when days were past,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">The bit of clay was firm at last,<\/span><br \/>\nThe form I gave it, still it wore,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">And I could change that form no more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A far more precious thing than clay,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">I gently shaped from day to day,<\/span><br \/>\nAnd molded with my fumbling art,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">A young child&#8217;s soft and yielding heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I came again when years were gone,<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">And it was a man I looked upon,<\/span><br \/>\nWho such godlike nature bore<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">The men could change it \u2013 NEVERMORE.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor&#8217;s note: This poem appears in both sections HH-6 and FF-1.] 1\/23\/77 I took a piece of plastic clay, And idly fashioned it one day, And as my fingers pressed it still, It molded \u2013 yielding to my will. I came again when days were past, The bit of clay was firm at last, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":88091,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112657","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122519,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112657\/revisions\/122519"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}