{"id":157,"date":"2014-01-25T01:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T00:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2014-03-10T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:09:41","slug":"the-way-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"The Way You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter hangs on like an old beggar.<br \/>\nFrom one moment to another<br \/>\ntime passes untouched.<br \/>\nIt is the curious pain of nothing.<br \/>\nIt is neither dead nor alive.<br \/>\nOnly the hand of something gone,<br \/>\ndissolved, forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>In its youth winter is a princess,<br \/>\neyes full of kites flying in the snow.<br \/>\nThe spring of stars<br \/>\nin a cascade of indescribable flowers<br \/>\nopening and closing<br \/>\non our new beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>I put my heart in its hands<br \/>\nand tell it,<br \/>\nThank you.<br \/>\nI have not forgotten,<br \/>\nI will recite your poems over and over<br \/>\nand ask magnificence<br \/>\nto anoint you with its glory,<br \/>\nto be forever what you are<br \/>\nand meant to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter hangs on like an old beggar. From one moment to another time passes untouched. It is the curious pain of nothing. It is neither&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=157\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Way You Are<\/span><\/a><\/div>\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-157","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\/157","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}