{"id":1591,"date":"2016-01-06T02:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2016-01-03T00:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:30:16","slug":"where-are-the-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Where Are the Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do scribblers write poetry<br \/>\nand poets write nothing?<br \/>\nBecause there\u2019s death in confronting<br \/>\nbeauty.<br \/>\nWounds no one can bear.<br \/>\nA search confronting inevitable loss.<br \/>\nPoets hide lest they be eaten,<br \/>\nthrown in the sea,<br \/>\nconsumed by the flames<br \/>\nof the faithful,<br \/>\nridiculed by fools and realists.<\/p>\n<p>They are fragile beings<br \/>\nwho whisper, I am fog<br \/>\nlooking for shape.<br \/>\nLaughter looking for joy.<br \/>\nI have as many gods as stars.<br \/>\nWords fly from my heart<br \/>\nlike birds looking for a country<br \/>\nwhere they are not hunted.<br \/>\nI write poems of air,<br \/>\nand die without remains.<br \/>\nWords drowning in silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do scribblers write poetry and poets write nothing? Because there\u2019s death in confronting beauty. Wounds no one can bear. A search confronting inevitable loss.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1591\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where Are the Poets<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","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\/1591","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=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}