{"id":1417,"date":"2014-08-10T02:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T01:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2014-08-05T21:32:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:32:25","slug":"walt-whitman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where did you come from?<br \/>\nStranded poet.<br \/>\nWhen did it happen?<br \/>\nThat you turned your face to the world<br \/>\nand said, repeat after me.<br \/>\nThen closed your eyes,<br \/>\nand the water that fell from them<br \/>\nwere pieces of truth.<br \/>\nAs true as any a child can be.<br \/>\nOr the man that hides the child.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if you pushed the world away,<br \/>\ncrying, let me be myself!<br \/>\nOr if the wind of creation<br \/>\nblew through your pores enveloping you,<br \/>\nand on the other side of yourself<br \/>\nwords were scattered here and there<br \/>\non stipends of paper.<br \/>\nWritten in sand,<br \/>\nsaid silently to the grass<br \/>\nthat grew up to your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>And you looked through the blades<br \/>\nand said,<br \/>\nthat will do,<br \/>\nwhatever grows here grows everywhere.<br \/>\nAnd everything is an ingot of love,<br \/>\nof mercy,<br \/>\nof beauty.<br \/>\nAnd you died, leaving behind<br \/>\nwhat was left of your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did you come from? Stranded poet. When did it happen? That you turned your face to the world and said, repeat after me. Then&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1417\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walt Whitman<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}