{"id":1794,"date":"2016-10-10T01:59:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2016-10-14T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:13:08","slug":"catching-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Catching Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know how I ever came this way.<br \/>\nFound this terrible cold.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s like being somewhere<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t want to be.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s how it is when you have a cold.<br \/>\nWhen you realize you\u2019re paper<br \/>\nand not stone.<br \/>\nWhen the pieces of you come apart in rain.<br \/>\nA spark sends you up in fire.<br \/>\nBecause to every force that ever was<br \/>\nyou\u2019re just a spit ball.<br \/>\nSomething the world can take apart<br \/>\nand see how you work.<br \/>\nLike the victim of a child\u2019s curiosity.<br \/>\nWhat makes the wing fly?<br \/>\nWhoops!<br \/>\nThere goes the wing!<\/p>\n<p>So being paper is not a long-term affair.<br \/>\nAnd being mad about it<br \/>\nis not practical.<br \/>\nI have often wondered<br \/>\nwhy spider webs<br \/>\nare as beautiful as they are.<br \/>\nAnd I think<br \/>\nmaybe to catch something,<br \/>\nso everything has a purpose.<br \/>\nAm I to catch the world in my heart?<br \/>\nIs that why I was made?<br \/>\nSomething to think about<br \/>\nwhen you have a cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know how I ever came this way. Found this terrible cold. It\u2019s like being somewhere you don\u2019t want to be. That\u2019s how it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1794\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catching Cold<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","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\/1794","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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}