{"id":1950,"date":"2014-11-03T01:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T00:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2014-10-28T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:21:38","slug":"at-your-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"At Your Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love is a most accidental disaster.<br \/>\nIt changes the tides of the world.<br \/>\nThe moon that shoves and pulls<br \/>\na planet.<br \/>\nI have never recovered from<br \/>\nits hunger,<br \/>\nthe knife blade of its pain.<br \/>\nIts words haunt me.<br \/>\nThey failed me,<br \/>\nand taunted me.<br \/>\nI died when I used them.<br \/>\nI pounded them with my fist<br \/>\nwhen I wrote them,<br \/>\nand when they burned<br \/>\nwith the fire I put them to,<br \/>\nmy tears could not rescue them.<\/p>\n<p>There are loves that hate me,<br \/>\nand have buried me,<br \/>\nand forgotten me.<br \/>\nBut I go to them<br \/>\nwhen the night leans on my heart.<br \/>\nWhen I am exhausted from living.<br \/>\nWhen I am frightened by loneliness.<br \/>\nI want one more time<br \/>\nto exchange a glance,<br \/>\nfind a treasure<br \/>\nto surprise their hand,<br \/>\nto call at an odd moment<br \/>\nand tell them,<br \/>\nI am being destroyed loving you.<br \/>\nWhat a wonderful death you are!<br \/>\nFalling to earth<br \/>\nshouting your name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is a most accidental disaster. It changes the tides of the world. The moon that shoves and pulls a planet. I have never recovered&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1950\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At Your Peril<\/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-1950","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\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}