{"id":2839,"date":"2016-04-07T01:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T00:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2016-03-31T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:25:58","slug":"unlocking-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to talk to the keeper<br \/>\nof the keys, the locksmith.<br \/>\nThe one who designs locks<br \/>\nto keep things in and out.<br \/>\nMichael wants to fly<br \/>\nand laments his boy\u2019s body.<br \/>\nHe is locked in his<br \/>\nearth bound frame.<\/p>\n<p>The bird is locked in its frailty,<br \/>\nwith wings that cannot build.<br \/>\nThe seed hovers in its shell<br \/>\nwaiting for the one<br \/>\nwho will bury it or break it open,<br \/>\nand I stand outside<br \/>\nthe locks in me,<br \/>\nthat chain my soul.<\/p>\n<p>So I ask<br \/>\nthe keeper of the keys,<br \/>\nwhy not lock all the locks away,<br \/>\nand see what the world becomes<br \/>\nwithout all its locks<br \/>\nthat close things in and out,<br \/>\nand let things be<br \/>\nwhat they will be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to talk to the keeper of the keys, the locksmith. The one who designs locks to keep things in and out. Michael wants&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2839\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unlocking Locks<\/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-2839","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\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}