{"id":2447,"date":"2015-01-09T01:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T00:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2015-01-07T02:08:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:08:24","slug":"the-journal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I opened the journal<br \/>\nof myself and said,<br \/>\nOh&#8230;!<br \/>\nas if light coming out of total darkness<br \/>\nscorched my eyes.<br \/>\nAs though the wind<br \/>\nhad broken through the rafters,<br \/>\nand something echoed<br \/>\nthrough the roof.<br \/>\nA song I had never heard.<br \/>\nA voice that struggled to be free,<br \/>\nto be loved,<br \/>\nto go out into the sky<br \/>\nand dissolve in silence.<\/p>\n<p>That is what I read in the journal,<br \/>\nin its poems,<br \/>\nin the words that someone uttered,<br \/>\nwho dared for a moment<br \/>\nto write a rain song,<br \/>\na red lament,<br \/>\nconfront the sweetness<br \/>\nand death of their life.<br \/>\nSaying things familiar,<br \/>\noh so familiar.<br \/>\nCan anyone explain their soul?<br \/>\nI can not,<br \/>\nand those who deny their soul,<br \/>\nkill themselves,<br \/>\nand can not be believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I opened the journal of myself and said, Oh&#8230;! as if light coming out of total darkness scorched my eyes. As though the wind&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2447\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Journal<\/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-2447","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\/2447","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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}