{"id":10249,"date":"2002-03-29T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2002-03-30T03:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2002-03-29T22:34:19","modified_gmt":"2002-03-30T03:34:19","slug":"the-rainstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10249","title":{"rendered":"The Rainstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lightning filled the sky with bolts<br \/>\nIt lit up everything<br \/>\nThe thunder roared with sounds so loud<br \/>\nIt shook up everything<br \/>\nAnd then the rain it came and came<br \/>\nSo fast no one could see<br \/>\nNot even a couple of inches ahead<br \/>\nThe rain stopped everything<br \/>\nI felt like I should build an ark<br \/>\nAnd gather things two by two<br \/>\nYes start collecting things to take<br \/>\nAlong before we knew<br \/>\nThat our world here would wash away<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how this made me feel<br \/>\nA fear did grip me cause this rain<br \/>\nNo stopping did reveal<br \/>\nBut just as quickly as it came<br \/>\nIt stopped and went away<br \/>\nUntil another day it&#8217;s back<br \/>\nTo cause us start to pray<br \/>\nYes pray to God that it will end<br \/>\nAnd not so wash away<br \/>\nAway this world that we are in<br \/>\nAt least, not for today<\/p>\n<p> By Ronald Gainsford<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2000 Ronald Gainsford<\/p>\n<p> BY RGAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lightning filled the sky with bolts It lit up everything The thunder roared with sounds so loud It shook up everything And then the rain it came and came&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10249\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rainstorm<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}