{"id":1570,"date":"2016-01-05T01:55:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2016-01-03T00:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:29:17","slug":"aurora-borealis-over-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis Over Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who has seen Aurora<br \/>\nhas seen a ghost.<br \/>\nShe wore a red cape<br \/>\nand asked for directions.<br \/>\nShe needed the night.<br \/>\nThe city with its lights<br \/>\npushed her away.<br \/>\nShe had no where to go.<br \/>\nHer mirror,<br \/>\nthe black sky,<br \/>\nfaded,<br \/>\nthe stars disappeared,<br \/>\nand she called, asking,<br \/>\nwhere is the ebony sea?<br \/>\nI cannot see my face.<br \/>\nI have strayed from the polar heavens.<br \/>\nI have lost my way!<\/p>\n<p>Standing in a field,<br \/>\nI lifted my hands,<br \/>\nI called to her with my heart.<br \/>\nI had watched her dance,<br \/>\nthen falter.<br \/>\nI had seen the waltz of her pure soul<br \/>\nin the darkness,<br \/>\nher green dress,<br \/>\nher moving hands,<br \/>\nand like her<br \/>\nI was no more than vapor.<\/p>\n<p>Because we were one<br \/>\nshe heard me.<br \/>\nI waved with my arm<br \/>\nto the polestar.<br \/>\nI called to her inside my soul.<br \/>\nFollow it<br \/>\nand be bright again!<br \/>\nBe the only radiance in the sky!<br \/>\nLet the wind fill your dress<br \/>\non the northern keep.<br \/>\nI have seen your dance.<br \/>\nGo there,<br \/>\nand be night\u2019s rainbow again.<br \/>\nMy beautiful ghost.<br \/>\nMy northern princess of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who has seen Aurora has seen a ghost. She wore a red cape and asked for directions. She needed the night. The city with its&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1570\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aurora Borealis Over Columbus<\/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-1570","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\/1570","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=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}