{"id":648,"date":"2012-03-04T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=648"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:48:44","slug":"the-grace-of-you","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=648","title":{"rendered":"The Grace of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Grace of You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was sitting at a corner table when I saw him,<br \/>\nfacing to the wall and on his own.<br \/>\nSlumped in the corner, the picture of dejection,<br \/>\ndisconsolately stabbing at a scone.<\/p>\n<p>And later, by the window, in the post office,<br \/>\nstaring blankly at a poster, chewing a nail.<br \/>\nUnderneath the one about the Colorado beetle,<br \/>\nreaddressing a big pile of someone\u2019s mail.<\/p>\n<p>And there, but for the Grace of God, stumble you and I.<br \/>\nThere, but for the Grace of You, go I.<\/p>\n<p>That evening in the pub where I was playing,<br \/>\nhis head was in his hand most of the time.<br \/>\nHe was lining up the glasses of cheap Mexican tequila<br \/>\nand slamming them right back &#8211; without the lime.<\/p>\n<p>And there, but for the Grace of God, stumble you and I.<br \/>\nThere, but for the Grace of You, go I.<\/p>\n<p>And everywhere I went that day I saw him<br \/>\nliving out the broken-heart clich\u00e9s:<br \/>\nstaring in a drink; skimming stones across a lake;<br \/>\nwandering in a catatonic daze.<\/p>\n<p>And there, but for the Grace of God, stumble you and I.<br \/>\nThere, but for the Grace of You, go I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grace of You He was sitting at a corner table when I saw him, facing to the wall and on his own. Slumped in the corner, the picture of dejection, disconsolately stabbing at a scone. And later, by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":558,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-as","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}