{"id":2046,"date":"2016-02-07T01:54:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T00:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2016-02-02T23:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:29:33","slug":"don-quixote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Don Quixote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,<br \/>\nit\u2019s true,<br \/>\nmy life stays where it is.<br \/>\nI seldom leave<br \/>\nfor want of a destination.<br \/>\nBut my horse is ready.<br \/>\nMy spirit has its helmet on.<br \/>\nI am ready to find<br \/>\nthe kingdom of my heart.<br \/>\nThe place where apples grow.<br \/>\nWhere eyes flash with lightning,<br \/>\nand brave men stand grandly,<br \/>\nat their ease before virtuous women.<br \/>\nI know that destiny<br \/>\nincludes some plan.<br \/>\nThat I am in the best place<br \/>\nfor things to happen,<br \/>\nas I eat cheese and drink my coffee.<\/p>\n<p>As the years fall from my shoulders<br \/>\nand youth smiles from my new teeth.<br \/>\nThat all sadness has left me,<br \/>\nand love has come in my life<br \/>\nwith the purity of a chapel\u2019s window.<br \/>\nSo beautiful,<br \/>\nthe sun melts the stone<br \/>\non the floor,<br \/>\nand Don Quixote joins me<br \/>\nin my prayers,<br \/>\nand calls me brother.<br \/>\nThe truth is where I stand.<br \/>\nWhere the rain falls on me.<br \/>\nWhere I lift my grandsons<br \/>\nin perfect joy,<br \/>\nand thank fate for life\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it\u2019s true, my life stays where it is. I seldom leave for want of a destination. But my horse is ready. My spirit has&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2046\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don Quixote<\/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-2046","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\/2046","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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}