{"id":1678,"date":"2016-01-12T01:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T00:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2016-01-11T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T03:04:04","slug":"what-use-are-curtains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"What Use Are Curtains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are curtains protecting?<br \/>\nLet the graves be uncovered.<br \/>\nCast aside the drapes<br \/>\nthat hide the heart.<br \/>\nHow can it rejoice in darkness<br \/>\nif its eyes are covered?<br \/>\nLet curtains protect our dreams,<br \/>\ngive privacy to sorrow,<br \/>\nprovide entrances for thresholds.<br \/>\nCreate sanctum from struggle,<br \/>\na tete-a-tete for love,<br \/>\nan arena from hungry tigers,<br \/>\na cover to continents and spaces.<br \/>\nLet curtains announce openings,<br \/>\nunfoldings,<br \/>\nplays,<br \/>\nthen be drawn to the side,<br \/>\nwhere life lurks<br \/>\nto come on stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are curtains protecting? Let the graves be uncovered. Cast aside the drapes that hide the heart. How can it rejoice in darkness if its&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1678\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Use Are Curtains?<\/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-1678","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\/1678","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=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}