{"id":2270,"date":"2012-03-25T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2012-03-25T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T21:53:21","slug":"language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps God listens to my poems.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know.<br \/>\nBut then any parent would listen<br \/>\nto his child,<br \/>\nhear the longing of his child\u2019s voice<br \/>\nliving in a place barely known.<br \/>\nI never feel Him refuse my words.<br \/>\nWalk away from me.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves shadows, which in<br \/>\nsome way I can connect with words.<br \/>\nDescribe His life\u2019s desire<br \/>\nas my own,<br \/>\nas if His faith is taking Him<br \/>\nto me,<br \/>\nas a parent would, without words<br \/>\nreach out,<br \/>\nand pull in the one he loves.<\/p>\n<p>He whispers in a passion<br \/>\nthat is the immensity of worlds,<br \/>\nwe are poetry,<br \/>\nall the rest is affectation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps God listens to my poems. I don\u2019t know. But then any parent would listen to his child, hear the longing of his child\u2019s voice&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2270\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language<\/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-2270","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\/2270","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=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}