{"id":2180,"date":"2012-02-24T02:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2012-02-24T02:18:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:18:53","slug":"the-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"The Lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible I will be found.<br \/>\nI am building a lighthouse.<br \/>\nThe mortar is mixed with pain,<br \/>\nit is wet with laughter.<br \/>\nThe beacon is the fire of words<br \/>\ngathered from dark dreams.<br \/>\nHow far it will be seen<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>The sea of humanity goes out<br \/>\nfor miles.<br \/>\nIt never stops glowing.<br \/>\nIt comes up from the deep<br \/>\nin a yellow phosphorescence,<br \/>\nin a blue topaz glow,<br \/>\nin colors I\u2019ve never seen,<br \/>\nso changing,<br \/>\nso swift,<br \/>\nand the people, like fish<br \/>\nrefuse to be caught.<\/p>\n<p>They go through the twine<br \/>\nlike small birds,<br \/>\nbecome fireflies in the black water.<br \/>\nThe lighthouse perhaps<br \/>\nwill attract a few as guests,<br \/>\ntempt the shadow-less ones<br \/>\nto stop by,<br \/>\nbecome a light by which something<br \/>\ncan be found before they go on.<\/p>\n<p>I am the last of the land souls.<br \/>\nI do not have the wildness of man,<br \/>\nthe restless urge to roam,<br \/>\nthe talons of an eagle or hawk.<br \/>\nI  wish only to reach out to the singer,<br \/>\nthe fisher of clams,<br \/>\nthe face of the lost dreamer<br \/>\ndevouring stars.<br \/>\nThose who pause looking for a light,<br \/>\nfar to the distance,<br \/>\nwhere I wave,<br \/>\nbeseeching their eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible I will be found. I am building a lighthouse. The mortar is mixed with pain, it is wet with laughter. The beacon&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2180\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lighthouse<\/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-2180","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\/2180","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=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}