{"id":2755,"date":"2012-10-09T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2012-10-09T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T18:17:37","slug":"the-story-au-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"The Story &#8220;Au Chocolate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure I understand<br \/>\nthe will-o\u2019-the-wisp,<br \/>\nthat rushes into town<br \/>\nwith her little bird beside her.<br \/>\nMaman, why can\u2019t we rest?<br \/>\nher baby asks.<br \/>\nMaman looks into the shadows.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re almost there dear,<br \/>\njust a little more.<br \/>\nAnd the night parts as they run,<br \/>\nand the story of Au Chocolate begins.<\/p>\n<p>Love, betrayal,<br \/>\nthe sadnesses of life multiplied,<br \/>\nand the marvelous chocolates<br \/>\nMaman makes.<br \/>\nA story of magic consequences<br \/>\nand how people find their way,<br \/>\nblindly,<br \/>\nthrough the Braille of the world,<br \/>\nfate redeeming broken love.<br \/>\nPeople looking for the lost parts<br \/>\nof themselves.<\/p>\n<p>And the story weaves tragedy and destiny<br \/>\ninto openings.<br \/>\nMaman, can we stay this time?<br \/>\nthe little girl asks<br \/>\nthe will-o\u2019-the-wisp,<br \/>\npausing,<br \/>\nhovering between some last place<br \/>\nand the one ahead.<br \/>\nThe morning is rising.<br \/>\nMaman stops her eternal search<br \/>\nto give her bird a home.<br \/>\nFulfilling something of herself,<br \/>\ncreature of a strange wind<br \/>\nfleeing from the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure I understand the will-o\u2019-the-wisp, that rushes into town with her little bird beside her. Maman, why can\u2019t we rest? her baby asks.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2755\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story &#8220;Au Chocolate&#8221;<\/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-2755","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\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}