{"id":1812,"date":"2011-10-15T02:33:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T01:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2011-10-15T02:33:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T01:33:54","slug":"for-rachel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"For Rachel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glorious thank you to Rachel.<br \/>\nGlorious thank you to Elaine.<br \/>\nGlorious thank you to Dennis.<br \/>\nGlorious thank you to Max.<br \/>\nCelebration of life.<br \/>\nMark where the tide comes in.<br \/>\nMark where the sigh of the sea<br \/>\ngoes back.<br \/>\nJourney of constellations,<br \/>\ntenderness,<br \/>\nreplenishing the cup,<br \/>\nsacrament of children,<br \/>\ngathering in.<br \/>\nWhere heaven stays.<br \/>\nWhere the fragile never breaks.<br \/>\nWhere the pearl<br \/>\nis worn like the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Family of psalms,<br \/>\nof open joy.<br \/>\nI beheld your covenant of love,<br \/>\ndance of the heart.<br \/>\nHands woven in each other<br \/>\nlike tapestries.<br \/>\nTemple of humanness,<br \/>\nof pure eyes,<br \/>\ndark night,<br \/>\ndawn of amethyst and rose.<br \/>\nThe earth will journey<br \/>\nwith your hearts in its river.<br \/>\nBloom with the open smiles<br \/>\nof your faces.<\/p>\n<p>You are the oranges and grapes<br \/>\nof summer.<br \/>\nYou are a family of open love.<br \/>\nThank you for your bread,<br \/>\nyour clapping laughter.<br \/>\nThe open door of your house.<br \/>\nI will remember my hosts<br \/>\nlike spring brightened with flowers.<br \/>\nLike the clean, delicious air<br \/>\nof an awakening,<br \/>\nwith beautiful voices.<br \/>\nFamily of embraces.<br \/>\nFamily of devotion.<br \/>\nThank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glorious thank you to Rachel. Glorious thank you to Elaine. Glorious thank you to Dennis. Glorious thank you to Max. Celebration of life. Mark where&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1812\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Rachel<\/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-1812","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\/1812","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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}