{"id":62,"date":"2009-03-03T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-03-03T07:17:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T14:17:53","slug":"speck-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/speck-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Speck of Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Catch that speck of hate, which you created;<br \/>\nHold it, and convert it into love.<br \/>\nGrow with it, then release it<br \/>\nTo the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wrote those lines for a fellow student and friend at university, Andy T.,\u00a0 who had a lot of anger.\u00a0 He was much impressed and took the poem away with him.\u00a0 It also worked for me, as part of the introspection which was already part of my life by then.\u00a0 I was really able to catch myself in the process of thinking a nasty thought, and hold the thought, cherish it and change it into a loving one.\u00a0 It was quite a revelation and several of my friends took it on board.\u00a0 Nowadays there&#8217;s not much hate in my life, but I filter my feelings less too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch that speck of hate, which you created; Hold it, and convert it into love. Grow with it, then release it To the world. I wrote those lines for a fellow student and friend at university, Andy T.,\u00a0 who had a lot of anger.\u00a0 He was much impressed and took the poem away with him.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemongrass.org.uk\/lemongrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}