{"id":2707,"date":"2017-03-20T03:11:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T02:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:25:40","slug":"mermaid-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should like to hear a song<br \/>\nas wonderful as you.<br \/>\nTo be jealous.<br \/>\nTo love the thrashing of your arms,<br \/>\nthe way you bound around me,<br \/>\na child leaping invisible gates,<br \/>\na voice circling beyond<br \/>\nplanetary range.<br \/>\nBut then,<br \/>\nthat is love.<\/p>\n<p>A voice so shy,<br \/>\nto reach so far,<br \/>\ndelicate and tremulous.<br \/>\nAn oceanic soul.<br \/>\nYou move,<br \/>\na dancer light as a puff<br \/>\nof dandelion.<br \/>\nEyes of blue vast<br \/>\nlike the sky above us.<br \/>\nYour notes written on a line<br \/>\nof white cattail coast,<br \/>\nturning my body<br \/>\ninto sea,<br \/>\nas I listen to you sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should like to hear a song as wonderful as you. To be jealous. To love the thrashing of your arms, the way you bound&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2707\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mermaid Singing<\/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-2707","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\/2707","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=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}