{"id":290,"date":"2015-09-23T01:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2015-09-01T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:23:09","slug":"hearing-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Hearing the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred pale deaths stand in unison<br \/>\nsinging hymns in the sisterhood of sorrow.<br \/>\nA garden of shade<br \/>\nwhere silence walks by itself.<br \/>\nWhere love lies in bouquets by the stones,<br \/>\nand a page turns up blank<br \/>\nfor a small boy to fashion his letters.<\/p>\n<p>Words will dart among the signs,<br \/>\nand the first poem of his soul<br \/>\nwill be written,<br \/>\nand no one will hear the chorus<br \/>\nin the background singing,<br \/>\npreparing the earth for the tree<br \/>\nthat is being planted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred pale deaths stand in unison singing hymns in the sisterhood of sorrow. A garden of shade where silence walks by itself. Where love&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=290\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hearing the Dead<\/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-290","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\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}