{"id":294,"date":"2015-09-18T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2015-09-01T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:18:08","slug":"dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They looked at me like innocent children.<br \/>\nLike students and orphans<br \/>\nin their two-dimensional world.<br \/>\nOne child was rhapsody,<br \/>\nanother diaphanous as a shadow.<br \/>\nMany of them rubbed their eyes from sleep.<br \/>\nTheir dream almost lost asking who I was.<br \/>\nTheir heart&#8217;s father.<br \/>\nNone ever to be cast away.<br \/>\nLost in the wilderness of the world.<\/p>\n<p>I must pick a few.<br \/>\nA chorus for the rest.<br \/>\nNot understanding exactly what it was<br \/>\nto be written.<br \/>\nTo be separated from yourself.<br \/>\nBut that is what was created,<br \/>\nan image in the mirror,<br \/>\nnotes as valid as any mathematics.<br \/>\nTo reach the edge of a beach<br \/>\nwhere emptiness invites you<br \/>\nto enter the waves,<br \/>\nand discover the fountainhead<br \/>\nfrom which you&#8217;re born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They looked at me like innocent children. Like students and orphans in their two-dimensional world. One child was rhapsody, another diaphanous as a shadow. Many&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=294\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dilemma<\/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-294","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\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}