{"id":1437,"date":"2017-01-11T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2020-02-25T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:01:02","slug":"take-not-the-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Take Not the Hand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>What if I could not write&#8230;.?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TPOTG-Quill-in-Hand-with-frame-02.jpg\" alt=\"tpotg-quill-in-hand-with-frame-02\" width=\"374\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TPOTG-Quill-in-Hand-with-frame-02.jpg 410w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TPOTG-Quill-in-Hand-with-frame-02-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Take not the hand<br \/>Away from me<br \/>That writes my verse,<br \/>That sets me free.<br \/>Cloud not my senses<br \/>Nor steal my mind,<br \/>Take not my eyes<br \/>Don\u2019t leave me blind.<br \/>Name the price,<br \/>I\u2019ll pay the sum,<br \/>Just leave me whole<br \/>For years to come,<br \/>So I can write<br \/>My poetry,<br \/>Rejoicing in<br \/>A mind set free.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg\" alt=\"TOOTG Copyright 2016-2020 01\" width=\"127\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg 5000w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-644x386.jpg 644w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-1200x720.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I could not write&#8230;.? Take not the handAway from meThat writes my verse,That sets me free.Cloud not my sensesNor steal my mind,Take not my eyesDon\u2019t leave me blind.Name the price,I\u2019ll pay the sum,Just leave me wholeFor years to come,So I can writeMy poetry,Rejoicing inA mind set free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[217,215,214,216,11,10,30,12,31],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-eyes","tag-hand","tag-legacy","tag-mind","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reflecting","tag-rhymes","tag-verse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phbx6B-nb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}