{"id":1719,"date":"2011-09-12T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2011-09-12T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T01:28:10","slug":"for-the-time-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"For the Time Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future invites me<br \/>\nto its uncertainty.<br \/>\nDo I want to know<br \/>\nwhat I don\u2019t know?<br \/>\nSome things I know already.<br \/>\nI will die.<br \/>\nBut how will I die?<br \/>\nWhere will I die?<br \/>\nExistence is impossible<br \/>\nbut it happens all the time.<br \/>\nWhere was my atom born?<\/p>\n<p>Am I the prodigy of random sex<br \/>\nor a love affair?<br \/>\nHow does the future<br \/>\nenter human destiny?<br \/>\nI fell in love<br \/>\nwith the love of my life,<br \/>\na blind date!<br \/>\nLove at first sight!<br \/>\nThe impossible attachment<br \/>\nof Romeo and Juliet.<\/p>\n<p>It is dangerous to know the future.<br \/>\nFor the inevitable<br \/>\nis our destruction.<br \/>\nIt exists only<br \/>\nin the what will happen.<br \/>\nBut not yet,<br \/>\nI gave my love a ring.<br \/>\nA will-be story of happiness<br \/>\nand loss.<br \/>\nFor my happiness<br \/>\nI bequeath my destiny.<br \/>\nWhere the future lives<br \/>\nand lives not.<br \/>\nA walk into the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future invites me to its uncertainty. Do I want to know what I don\u2019t know? Some things I know already. I will die. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1719\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For the Time Being<\/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-1719","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\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}