{"id":2800,"date":"2016-04-06T01:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T00:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2016-03-31T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:24:41","slug":"talking-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2800","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is this man talking to himself,<br \/>\nlaughing, crying, finding comfort<br \/>\nin the sound of his voice?<br \/>\nPerhaps I\u2019ve split into twos and<br \/>\nthrees for company.<br \/>\nDoes the world have only one voice<br \/>\nfor its infinity of multitudes?<br \/>\nWhen I leave the walls of my life<br \/>\nI go where the children go,<br \/>\nand listen to them speak<br \/>\nto their invisibles,<br \/>\nand learn how never to be<br \/>\nwithout friends.<\/p>\n<p>How beautiful they let them in<br \/>\nto play and hang out.<br \/>\nThey do not mind who is imaginal<br \/>\nand who is not.<br \/>\nThey do not lock themselves in closets<br \/>\nwhere eyes can\u2019t see,<br \/>\nthe heart drowns,<br \/>\ndreams pass into the walls<br \/>\nand the imagination asks,<br \/>\nis anyone at home?<br \/>\nAre you playing hide and seek?<br \/>\nor are you angry,<br \/>\nrefusing to speak to anyone,<br \/>\neven yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is this man talking to himself, laughing, crying, finding comfort in the sound of his voice? Perhaps I\u2019ve split into twos and threes for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2800\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talking to Myself<\/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-2800","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\/2800","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=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}