{"id":1847,"date":"2016-01-22T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2016-01-20T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T16:02:59","slug":"one-fossil-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"One Fossil to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sorry I\u2019m late.<br \/>\nInfinity detained me,<br \/>\nand you went to sleep<br \/>\ninside the stone.<br \/>\nI knocked too late.<br \/>\nI can not wake you,<br \/>\nalthough a piece of me<br \/>\nwas with you<br \/>\nin the oceanic sludge.<\/p>\n<p>I put fingers on your shell<br \/>\ntransformed by half<br \/>\na billion years,<br \/>\nsaying my heart<br \/>\nis as it was,<br \/>\nthen and now.<\/p>\n<p>Are you my sister<br \/>\nor my brother?<br \/>\nMy soul mate<br \/>\nin the tentacles of forever?<br \/>\nThe chain,<br \/>\nthat is so long,<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nI forget,<br \/>\nbut so close<br \/>\nI feel the joy between us<br \/>\neven now.<\/p>\n<p>A fossil<br \/>\nand a fossil that will be.<br \/>\nIs this<br \/>\nwhat it is to love,<br \/>\nto live,<br \/>\nto sparkle,<br \/>\ninside an artifact<br \/>\non the bottom of the sea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sorry I\u2019m late. Infinity detained me, and you went to sleep inside the stone. I knocked too late. I can not wake you, although&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1847\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Fossil to Another<\/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-1847","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\/1847","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=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}