{"id":98,"date":"2006-12-18T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/miscellaneous\/butt-prints-in-the-sand\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:46:20","slug":"butt-prints-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/miscellaneous\/butt-prints-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Butt Prints in the Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The following is a\u00c2\u00a0parody of the famous verse &#8220;Footprints in the Sand&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 The author is anonymous.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" id=\"image106\" alt=\"This isn't about footprints ...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/footprints.jpg\" \/>One night, I had a wondrous dream;<br \/>\nOne set of footprints there was seen.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The footprints of my precious Lord,<br \/>\nBut mine were not along the shore.<\/p>\n<p>But then some stranger prints appeared,<br \/>\nAnd I asked the Lord, &#8220;What have we here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those prints are large and round and neat,<br \/>\nBut, Lord, they are too big for feet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My child,&#8221; He said in somber tones.<br \/>\n&#8220;For miles I carried you alone.<\/p>\n<p>I challenged you to walk in faith,<br \/>\nBut you refused and made me wait.<\/p>\n<p>You disobeyed, you would not grow,<br \/>\nThe walk of faith you would not know.<\/p>\n<p>So I got tired and fed up,<br \/>\nAnd there I dropped you on your butt,<\/p>\n<p>Because in life, there comes a time,<br \/>\nWhen one must fight, and one must climb,<\/p>\n<p>When one must rise and take a stand,<br \/>\nOr leave their butt prints in the sand.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image105\" alt=\"Butt prints in the sand ...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/butt.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(To better understand the parody, you might want to read the original <a title=\"Footprints Poem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.footprints-inthe-sand.com\/PoemPage.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Footprints in the Sand<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The following is a\u00c2\u00a0parody of the famous verse &#8220;Footprints in the Sand&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 The author is anonymous.) One night, I had a wondrous dream; One set of footprints there was seen.\u00c2\u00a0 The footprints of my precious Lord, But mine were not along the shore. But then some stranger prints appeared, And I asked the Lord, &#8220;What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}