{"id":2568,"date":"2016-03-19T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2016-03-15T20:14:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:14:34","slug":"reincarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"Reincarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we live over and over.<br \/>\nCome through the metaphysical rain<br \/>\nand find our houses again and again,<br \/>\nI believe our path<br \/>\nis the journey of childhood,<br \/>\nblankets and fevers,<br \/>\nenchantment and terror.<br \/>\nOur words are poems.<br \/>\nWe draw pictures in the sand.<br \/>\nWe unravel stones<br \/>\nand rearrange them.<\/p>\n<p>We write love songs to our mothers.<br \/>\nLook down the roads our fathers go,<br \/>\nand mourn this age<br \/>\ntoo old for us.<br \/>\nDays too long without sleep and dreams.<br \/>\nIt is not a crime to love childhood.<br \/>\nIt is what we are.<br \/>\nChildren of dawn.<br \/>\nVoices in the chorus of the wind,<br \/>\ndance of oceans.<br \/>\nWe are children.<br \/>\nThe Garden of Eden.<br \/>\nLeaf fall, and returning of spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we live over and over. Come through the metaphysical rain and find our houses again and again, I believe our path is the journey&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2568\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reincarnation<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","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\/2568","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=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}