{"id":2680,"date":"2016-03-27T01:50:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T00:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2016-03-25T02:44:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T01:44:23","slug":"nothing-is-wasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is Wasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is wasted.<br \/>\nThe world eats everything.<br \/>\nIts juices dissolve the rocks,<br \/>\nthe jellyfish, our eyes,<br \/>\nfeeding its soul.<br \/>\nCreating honey in its hives.<br \/>\nWood to cover its mountains.<br \/>\nThe bacillus on our plates,<br \/>\nuntil nothing,<br \/>\nfor being consumed,<br \/>\nis ever dead,<br \/>\nbut transformed into leaves,<br \/>\nwomen,<br \/>\nwhales,<br \/>\nand minstrels hearing songs.<\/p>\n<p>How the air shouts it pregnancy!<br \/>\nThe cemeteries open up their tombs<br \/>\nand become the shade<br \/>\nsheltering lovers,<br \/>\ndogs taking shortcuts<br \/>\nthrough the bleached epitaphs<br \/>\nthat tell a tale.<br \/>\nA lonely ghost who lived there,<br \/>\nuntil the world invited it<br \/>\nto a street<br \/>\nwhere children jumped rope,<br \/>\nmothers strolled cherubs,<br \/>\nand geraniums filled pots<br \/>\non the sill.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds waved their whiteness,<br \/>\nthe heavens brought the blueness<br \/>\nof the sea inland,<br \/>\nand the world wrapped its arms<br \/>\naround their shoulders,<br \/>\nand wrote a poem worth hearing.<br \/>\nI love you too much,<br \/>\nto let you die.<br \/>\nYou are the vineyard<br \/>\nof my table.<br \/>\nThe tears and laughter<br \/>\nof my wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is wasted. The world eats everything. Its juices dissolve the rocks, the jellyfish, our eyes, feeding its soul. Creating honey in its hives. Wood&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2680\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing is Wasted<\/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-2680","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\/2680","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=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}