{"id":2097,"date":"2013-12-26T23:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2017-07-11T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:57:00","slug":"knife-give-joseph-j-nagarya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/knife-give-joseph-j-nagarya\/","title":{"rendered":"This Knife I Give You by Joseph J. Nagarya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/house.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1583 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/house.jpg\" alt=\"house\" width=\"438\" height=\"485\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/house.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/house-270x300.jpg 270w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 438px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 438\/485;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">This Knife I Give You<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Joseph J. Nagarya<\/p>\n<p>In Zen,<br \/>\nall that&#8217;s left to you<br \/>\nis to laugh.<\/p>\n<p>In this life,<br \/>\nall that&#8217;s left to do<br \/>\nis kindness.<\/p>\n<p>This knife I give you<br \/>\nis to cut the meanness<br \/>\nout of our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>In this life,<br \/>\nall that&#8217;s left to do<br \/>\nis kindness.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Joseph J. Nagarya is an artist who chose writing, over visual art and music,<br \/>\nbeginning circa March, 1965; and writing&#8211;song lyrics (experimental) prose, poetry,<br \/>\nlaw&#8211;has remained central and paramount through various careers, primarily in<br \/>\ncommunity work. Poetry is an ever-increasing, necessary passion. His ambition is<br \/>\nto be recognized, at long last, not as a rock star, but as the famous, and famously<br \/>\nelusive, &#8220;Anonymous,&#8221; the most prolific author the world has ever known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Knife I Give You by Joseph J. Nagarya In Zen, all that&#8217;s left to you is to laugh. In this life, all that&#8217;s left to do is kindness. This knife I give you is to cut the meanness out of our hearts. In this life, all that&#8217;s left to do is kindness. ### Joseph&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}