{"id":5042,"date":"2026-06-01T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:50:36","slug":"all-gods-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/2026\/06\/01\/all-gods-children\/","title":{"rendered":"All God&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nant_house_party.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nant_house_party.png 800w, https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nant_house_party-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nant_house_party-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Birdie sings at a Nant House party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Church of England pastor<br>From Runny Meade, UK<br>Why he had not wed<br>The pastor could not say<br>\u201cThese are all God\u2019s children<br>I must love them all!\u201d<br>Which he loved the most<br>He hardly could recall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Oh. . .<br>The daughter of a lawyer or a clergyman<br>The mother of another<br>Or the sister of a friend<br>A nun of faulty habits and occasional doubt<br>These are the children I cannot do without<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A maid who\u2019s under-paid or a lonely governess<br>A niece wrest from a priest with too much to confess<br>The laundress of the mistress of a Winchester lord<br>These are the children who cannot be ignored<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new spouse in a bathhouse<br>Though a hole in the wall<br>An abbess in a thin dress<br>Or a nurse in none at all<br>The needy are those pupils<br>Lacking basic scruples<br>Let \u2014 God\u2019s \u2014 will \u2014 be done!<br>I only dread I should be wed<br>Before I\u2019ve loved each one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birdie sings a funny song at a Nant House party, September 1847<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}