{"id":1721,"date":"2014-09-29T02:54:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2014-09-22T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:11:49","slug":"the-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m following the geography<br \/>\nof the sun.<br \/>\nWhen days look back<br \/>\nat their shadows.<br \/>\nWhen a morose dream begins.<br \/>\nWhen light becomes precious,<br \/>\nnot for its gold<br \/>\nbut for a wine that cheers<br \/>\nthe blood,<br \/>\ngoes to the heart,<br \/>\nand it is light,<br \/>\nmore potent as it stays.<\/p>\n<p>Then I can follow the meridian<br \/>\nto the equator<br \/>\nand fall into the south<br \/>\nwhere spring is beginning.<br \/>\nWhen it\u2019s opening its eyes again.<br \/>\nDo we live forever?<br \/>\nEach succeeding life following<br \/>\nthe eternal soul of light,<br \/>\nround and round,<br \/>\nuntil there is only cinders left,<br \/>\nlife somewhere<br \/>\nin the sweetness of ashes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m following the geography of the sun. When days look back at their shadows. When a morose dream begins. When light becomes precious, not for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1721\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Longest Day<\/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-1721","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\/1721","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=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}