{"id":2338,"date":"2014-12-23T01:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T00:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2014-12-16T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:05:46","slug":"the-toes-of-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"The Toes of the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do the cells remember who we are?<br \/>\nThe double helix, the DNA,<br \/>\nthe keys to the kingdom.<br \/>\nBeyond the comprehension of sea light,<br \/>\nsand dunes,<br \/>\nthe animate love affair with the inanimate.<br \/>\nDarling,<br \/>\nlet the ocean\u2019s water cover our toes.<br \/>\nLets listen to the rhapsody<br \/>\nthat was written in this concert hall<br \/>\nof blue and gray.<\/p>\n<p>I have a secret to tell you about such things.<br \/>\nAbout the memory of each cell,<br \/>\nof the gyroscope that balances<br \/>\nthe feet of heaven.<br \/>\nThat we, I think, are perhaps<br \/>\nnot what the cells are,<br \/>\nwhat the dunes hide in their waves<br \/>\nof sand,<br \/>\nbut are dreams that wiggle their toes<br \/>\nin sea water<br \/>\nembracing what they find,<br \/>\nits gravity, in love with the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do the cells remember who we are? The double helix, the DNA, the keys to the kingdom. Beyond the comprehension of sea light, sand&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2338\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Toes of the Kingdom<\/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-2338","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\/2338","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=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}