{"id":10234,"date":"2023-12-26T20:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/on-children\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T20:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:06:40","slug":"on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/other\/on-children\/","title":{"rendered":"On Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"circleoflight.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/i42.photobucket.com\/albums\/e302\/littlewing777\/circleoflight.jpg?t=1173984994\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div>And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, &quot;Speak to us of Children.&quot; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And he said: <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Your children are not your children. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>They are the sons and daughters of Life&#8217;s longing for itself. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>They come through you but not from you, <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>You may give them your love but not your thoughts. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For they have their own thoughts. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>You may house their bodies but not their souls, <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Let your bending in the archer&#8217;s hand be for gladness; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Posted by: wyldwynd<\/p>\n<p>Notes: Source: The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran, chapter 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, &quot;Speak to us of Children.&quot; And he said: 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 they are with you, yet they belong not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}