{"id":2489,"date":"2016-12-30T02:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2017-04-30T19:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:58:53","slug":"to-be-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"To Be An Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t draw<br \/>\nthe shadows of the night,<br \/>\ncompose music<br \/>\nof wind rhapsody,<br \/>\nsculpt the way<br \/>\nthe world shapes a hill,<br \/>\nwork the innate<br \/>\ngeometries of wood.<br \/>\nYet,<br \/>\nI am my own truth.<br \/>\nI own a kind of poetry.<\/p>\n<p>I want every atom inside me<br \/>\nto be sky and earth,<br \/>\ncolor, coloring its places.<br \/>\nClay, shaped within my hands<br \/>\nfor pots, to hold flowers,<br \/>\nand sculptures standing<br \/>\nwhere my heart stands.<br \/>\nLips shaping words<br \/>\nfor songs that need singing.<br \/>\nThen I will be<br \/>\nwhat I\u2019m meant to be,<br \/>\na lark,<br \/>\nlistening to its poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t draw the shadows of the night, compose music of wind rhapsody, sculpt the way the world shapes a hill, work the innate geometries&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2489\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Be An Artist<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","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\/2489","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=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}