{"id":282,"date":"2014-01-23T03:57:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2014-02-22T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T17:48:29","slug":"more-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"More or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more I see<br \/>\nthe smaller I become.<br \/>\nKnowledge reduces the place<br \/>\nwhere I stand.<br \/>\nMy life buries me in its history.<br \/>\nI thought flying<br \/>\nwould let me touch the fastness<br \/>\nof the heavens,<br \/>\nto be overcome by the miles and miles<br \/>\nof the earth.<\/p>\n<p>But the zenith was nowhere<br \/>\nto be found,<br \/>\nas I soared and earth became softer<br \/>\nno larger than a pearl, an aquamarine.<br \/>\nWhich made me bow my head.<br \/>\nRetreat inside to the cell in my heart.<br \/>\nThe place I was born<br \/>\nand call out in a whisper,<br \/>\nhold me,<br \/>\nall I can do is touch my humanity<br \/>\nand let the huge be huge,<br \/>\nand a poem be writing in a diary<br \/>\nto be read by God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I see the smaller I become. Knowledge reduces the place where I stand. My life buries me in its history. I thought flying&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=282\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More or Less<\/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-282","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\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}