{"id":1889,"date":"2013-12-22T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"The Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I owned a little boat a while ago,<br \/>\nAnd sailed the morning sea without a fear,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/politician-little-sailboat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1949\" alt=\"politician-little-sailboat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/politician-little-sailboat-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/politician-little-sailboat-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/politician-little-sailboat.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd whither any breeze might fairly blow.<br \/>\nI steered my little craft afar or near.<br \/>\nMine was the boat,<br \/>\nAnd mine the air,<br \/>\nAnd mine the sea,<br \/>\nNor mine a care.<br \/>\nMy boat became my place of mighty toil,<br \/>\nI sailed at evening to the fishing ground,<br \/>\nWhich my all conquering work had found.<br \/>\nMine was the boat,<br \/>\nAnd mine the net,<br \/>\nAnd mine the skill,<br \/>\nAnd power to get.<br \/>\nOne day there came along that silent shore,<br \/>\nWhile I my net was casting in the sea,<br \/>\nA Man who spoke as never man before.<br \/>\nI followed Him; new life began in me.<br \/>\nMine was the boat,<br \/>\nBut His the voice,<br \/>\nAnd His the call,<br \/>\nYet mine the choice.<br \/>\nAh! &#8217;twas a fearful night out on the lake,<br \/>\nAnd all my skill availed not, at the helm,<br \/>\nTill Him asleep I walked, crying, &#8220;Take<br \/>\nThou the helm &#8212; lest water overwhelm!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd His the boat,<br \/>\nAnd His the sea,<br \/>\nAnd His the peace,<br \/>\nO&#8217;er all and me.<br \/>\nOnce from the boat, He taught the curious throng.<br \/>\nThen bade me cast my net into the sea;<br \/>\nI murmured but obeyed, nor was it long<br \/>\nBefore the catch amazed and humbled me.<br \/>\nHis was the boat,<br \/>\nAnd His the skill,<br \/>\nAnd His the catch,<br \/>\nAnd His my will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I owned a little boat a while ago, And sailed the morning sea without a fear, And whither any breeze might fairly blow. I steered my little craft afar or near. Mine was the boat, And mine the air, And mine the sea, Nor mine a care. My boat became my place of mighty toil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}