{"id":1961,"date":"2016-10-25T01:17:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2016-10-18T02:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T01:02:03","slug":"traveling-in-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1961","title":{"rendered":"Traveling in Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God,<br \/>\nwas I created,<br \/>\nor a piece of rock<br \/>\nthat grew tired of waiting?<br \/>\nHow many steps does nothing take,<br \/>\nuntil it leaves tracks?<br \/>\nI don\u2019t believe I can be made.<br \/>\nToo many pieces coming together<br \/>\nin too many ways.<\/p>\n<p>And then,<br \/>\nwhere did the heart begin?<br \/>\nWas that my idea?<br \/>\nTo feel love.<br \/>\nTo feel what a day feels?<br \/>\nIs there an equation<br \/>\nthat writes that large?<br \/>\nThat chases its tail like pi,<br \/>\nbut never forgets<br \/>\nwhat it\u2019s doing?<\/p>\n<p>Do things really get made, God?<br \/>\nDid it take forever to make me?<br \/>\nThen why,<br \/>\nif it took the lifetime<br \/>\nof a universe,<br \/>\nto put me here,<br \/>\nmust my life be so short?<br \/>\nA few moments.<br \/>\nA love affair,<br \/>\nand tomorrow,<br \/>\nnothing left of me.<br \/>\nHow did you manage that, God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, was I created, or a piece of rock that grew tired of waiting? How many steps does nothing take, until it leaves tracks? I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1961\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Traveling in Circles<\/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-1961","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\/1961","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=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}