{"id":2785,"date":"2017-04-24T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2017-05-01T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T21:20:12","slug":"visions-that-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"Visions That Don&#8217;t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have memories that don\u2019t exist<br \/>\nbut persist in me.<br \/>\nRoads resembling France.<br \/>\nMountains with deep, green canyons<br \/>\nof snow.<br \/>\nEstates and houses.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps everyone has visions that don\u2019t exist.<br \/>\nThey seem like places that search for us.<br \/>\nAn ambience that wants the juices<br \/>\nof love in us.<br \/>\nAnd we want them to be red<br \/>\nfor reasons mysterious.<br \/>\nA parched paper losing its shreds on a wall,<br \/>\nand you wonder who chose it,<br \/>\nwhy it appealed to them.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible we live other lives<br \/>\nbefore this one?<br \/>\nThat its residues persist and occupy us.<br \/>\nOr that there are parallel worlds<br \/>\nthat live in us.<br \/>\nParallel times that belong to us,<br \/>\nsometimes touching,<br \/>\nand leaving a sorrow here,<br \/>\na love song there,<br \/>\na vision consummated and repeated<br \/>\nlike a shadow on the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have memories that don\u2019t exist but persist in me. Roads resembling France. Mountains with deep, green canyons of snow. Estates and houses. Perhaps everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2785\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visions That Don&#8217;t Exist<\/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-2785","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\/2785","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=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}