{"id":615,"date":"2010-08-15T16:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=615"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:32:37","slug":"amazing-grace-by-john-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/amazing-grace-by-john-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Grace by John Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/newton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-616 lazyload\" title=\"newton\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/newton-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/newton-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/newton.jpg 390w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 234px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 234\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">John Newton (1725-1807)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Amazing Grace<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,<br \/>\nThat saved a wretch like me.<br \/>\nI once was lost but now am found,<br \/>\nWas blind, but now I see.<br \/>\nT&#8217;was Grace that taught my heart to fear.<br \/>\nAnd Grace, my fears relieved.<br \/>\nHow precious did that Grace appear<br \/>\nThe hour I first believed.<br \/>\nThrough many dangers, toils and snares<br \/>\nI have already come;<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far<br \/>\nand Grace will lead me home.<br \/>\nThe Lord has promised good to me.<br \/>\nHis word my hope secures.<br \/>\nHe will my shield and portion be,<br \/>\nAs long as life endures.<\/p>\n<p>An amazing fact about this poem is that Newton was a slave ship captain?who became a minister. He claimed god had saved him from a wreched life. The music that is put to the poem is most-likely written by slaves. These facts have a great impact on the meaning of the words of the famous hymn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing fact about this poem is that Newton was a slave ship captain who became a minister. He claimed god had saved him from a wreched life. The music that is put to the poem is most-likely written by slaves. These facts have a great impact on the meaning of the words of the famous hymn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[6,428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1700s","category-inspirational-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}