{"id":2642,"date":"2012-08-21T02:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2012-08-21T02:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T01:53:28","slug":"iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Iris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most beautiful anemone is the<br \/>\niris of the eye.<br \/>\nEthereal when alarmed by love,<br \/>\nmodest in its nakedness.<br \/>\nIt does not lie,<br \/>\nbecause it cannot lie.<br \/>\nIt opens the window to the heart.<br \/>\nBlack with fear.<br \/>\nBlack in passion.<br \/>\nMercurial, watching dancers.<\/p>\n<p>Color of violets, emeralds,<br \/>\nfallen chestnuts,<br \/>\nshower gray in the shy,<br \/>\ncorona of black moons,<br \/>\nquivering in wonder, adulation,<br \/>\nsecond sight,<br \/>\nstill, as the sightless see<br \/>\nin front of death.<br \/>\nIt encircles what we love,<br \/>\nwhat we hate,<br \/>\nwhat is never understood,<br \/>\nwhat we choose to be our truth.<br \/>\nIt is the flower of our face<br \/>\nwhere the garden of our soul is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most beautiful anemone is the iris of the eye. Ethereal when alarmed by love, modest in its nakedness. It does not lie, because it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2642\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iris<\/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-2642","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\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}