{"id":368,"date":"2022-12-31T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=368"},"modified":"2022-12-31T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:03:43","slug":"368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The poem \u201cI Am\u201d is by poet Dedan Gills (1945\u20132015)<\/em><em>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I Am&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am old and wise as the night. I am as beautiful as a bird in flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the moon and the sea. I am the robin and the bee. I am the soil and I am the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m the lion and the gazelle. I am heaven and I am hell. I am the ring and I am the bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the joy and I am the tear. I am the brave and I am the fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the blistering desert. I\u2019m the freezing snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m the cringing coward and the gentle hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m the aged and I am the young. I am the weak and I am the strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the smile and I am the frown. I am the pauper and I am the crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the wrong and I am the right. I am the day and I am the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am now and I am never. I am yesterday and I am forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the bitter and I am the sweet. I live on the hill and I live on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the top and I am the bottom. I am Martin, Hitler, Gandhi, and Saddam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am red, black, yellow, brown, and white. I love, hate, laugh, cry, and fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the universe is reflected in me. I am all that ever was and ever will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I lose, it\u2019s the lesson that I win. Judging others is my sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem \u201cI Am\u201d is by poet Dedan Gills (1945\u20132015):\u00a0\u00a0 I Am&nbsp; I am old and wise as the night. I am as beautiful as a bird in flight. I am the moon and the sea. I am the robin and the bee. I am the soil and I am the tree. I\u2019m the lion [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}