{"id":2783,"date":"2016-04-04T01:11:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T00:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2016-03-31T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:23:17","slug":"the-choice-or-what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"The Choice (Or What If)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thread that unravels everything.<br \/>\nI saw it once trailing from a web.<br \/>\nA wisp of unconnected dangling<br \/>\ncapturing the light,<br \/>\nwith a power that exceeded universal power.<br \/>\nLike a hair from a child\u2019s head,<br \/>\nas if a single thought was dancing in the air,<br \/>\nspinning time and space.<br \/>\nSo fragile in the fog.<br \/>\nSo still the fashioning of creation.<\/p>\n<p>And it occurred that it was giving<br \/>\nme a choice,<br \/>\none time out of time,<br \/>\na right to yank it down,<br \/>\na kind of universal fate,<br \/>\nand for an instant<br \/>\nthere was stillness in my heart,<br \/>\nas if nothing had ever happened,<br \/>\nincluding,<br \/>\nyou, and you, and you,<br \/>\nand I blew it away with the anguish<br \/>\nfrom my life,<br \/>\nso close I came to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thread that unravels everything. I saw it once trailing from a web. A wisp of unconnected dangling capturing the light, with a power that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2783\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Choice (Or What If)<\/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-2783","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\/2783","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=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}