{"id":246,"date":"2014-01-19T22:55:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-02-22T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T17:40:38","slug":"hurricane-gustav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Gustav"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cinders<br \/>\nfalling where the rain was.<br \/>\nA manic sound<br \/>\ncrackling like scratchy nails<br \/>\non the roof.<br \/>\nThe waves falling<br \/>\nlike exhausted swimmers<br \/>\nfrom the hurricane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gustav looking for his sister.<br \/>\nLike a great whale<br \/>\nbreeching itself on the land.<br \/>\nGustav howled and called out<br \/>\nfor Katrina,<br \/>\nangel of the sea\u2019s holocaust.<br \/>\nIgnoring the small, fragile beings<br \/>\nwho flashed pictures<br \/>\nof Gustav\u2019s rage,<br \/>\nand did not understand<br \/>\nthe revenge of Gustav\u2019s love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How the sea and land<br \/>\nfought for the supremacy<br \/>\nof the world.<br \/>\nFor the streets<br \/>\nto be planted in gardens of coral.<br \/>\nFor the mountains to be destroyed<br \/>\nand washed away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That the grandeur of the dream<br \/>\nis the pounding of relentless time.<br \/>\nWhere the poinsettia of the sun rises<br \/>\nto show Gustav the way,<br \/>\nand after him,<br \/>\nanother and another<br \/>\nof the sea children<br \/>\nuntil the earth is covered<br \/>\nwith its soul.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinders falling where the rain was. A manic sound crackling like scratchy nails on the roof. The waves falling like exhausted swimmers from the hurricane.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=246\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hurricane Gustav<\/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-246","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\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}