{"id":2711,"date":"2012-09-17T19:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T18:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2012-09-17T19:38:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T18:38:35","slug":"self-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"Self Taught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I my teacher.<br \/>\nIt is all I have.<br \/>\nThe truth suffers in me,<br \/>\nbut it is better<br \/>\nthan a lie.<br \/>\nI do not lie to myself.<br \/>\nOr only a little.<br \/>\nSometimes to save my sanity.<br \/>\nTruth allows me stories.<br \/>\nSo I am my teacher.<\/p>\n<p>I explore winters<br \/>\ninside me.<br \/>\nLook through woods<br \/>\nshorn of their leaves.<br \/>\nSee the arteries of creation.<br \/>\nWatch heaven fall about me<br \/>\nin the snow.<br \/>\nWhere I can lie,<br \/>\nvirginal,<br \/>\nnever to be erased,<br \/>\nand have a chance,<br \/>\nto be light,<br \/>\nwithin light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I my teacher. It is all I have. The truth suffers in me, but it is better than a lie. I do not lie to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2711\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self Taught<\/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-2711","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\/2711","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=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}