{"id":2259,"date":"2012-03-21T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2012-03-22T03:51:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T02:51:31","slug":"whats-up-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s up there, that sound,<br \/>\nthe attic talking?<br \/>\nFootsteps stomping in the wind?<br \/>\nVoices arguing with each other?<br \/>\nDreams dreaming their separate lives?<br \/>\nAre they things not yet alive?<br \/>\nJust waking up.<br \/>\nShould I be afraid?<br \/>\nIs it, whatever it is,<br \/>\nafraid of me?<br \/>\nImagination gone awry?<\/p>\n<p>Is it something else in reverse,<br \/>\nasking, what\u2019s happening down there?<br \/>\nMaking all that noise.<br \/>\nOpening and closing,<br \/>\nrattling and breaking.<br \/>\nUnceasing racket.<br \/>\nThe mysterious, or me, asking<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s behind a door?<br \/>\nShould doors be opened?<br \/>\nAll doors or some?<br \/>\nWhat is knowledge worth?<br \/>\nSomeday to meet a ghost or angel,<br \/>\nor the philosopher\u2019s stone<br \/>\ntossed from the dark?<br \/>\nIn a game called catch me if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s up there, that sound, the attic talking? Footsteps stomping in the wind? Voices arguing with each other? Dreams dreaming their separate lives? Are they&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2259\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s Up There<\/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-2259","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\/2259","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=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}