{"id":404,"date":"2009-02-14T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=404"},"modified":"2009-02-14T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T09:58:49","slug":"maya-angelou-touched-by-an-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/maya-angelou-touched-by-an-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Angelou  \/  Touched by an Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leftbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/7\/20090214-A-Red-Rose_web.jpg' width='300' height='200' alt='Red Rose' \/><\/div>\n<p>Love arrives<br \/>\nand in its train come ecstasies<br \/>\nold memories of pleasure<br \/>\nancient histories of pain.<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Touched by an Angel<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  We, unaccustomed to courage<br \/>\nexiles from delight<br \/>\nlive coiled in shells of loneliness<br \/>\nuntil love leaves its high holy temple<br \/>\nand comes into our sight<br \/>\nto liberate us into life.<\/p>\n<p>Love arrives<br \/>\nand in its train come ecstasies<br \/>\nold memories of pleasure<br \/>\nancient histories of pain.<br \/>\nYet if we are bold,<br \/>\nlove strikes away the chains of fear<br \/>\nfrom our souls.<\/p>\n<p>We are weaned from our timidity<br \/>\nIn the flush of love&#8217;s light<br \/>\nwe dare be brave<br \/>\nAnd suddenly we see<br \/>\nthat love costs all we are<br \/>\nand will ever be.<br \/>\nYet it is only love<br \/>\nwhich sets us free.<\/p>\n<p>Maya Angelou<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}