{"id":2960,"date":"2015-04-03T00:55:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2015-03-31T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:53:03","slug":"sleeping-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am dissolving like a sugar cube.<br \/>\nWords melt before I can use them.<br \/>\nThe world looks the same<br \/>\nout of the left eye or the right.<br \/>\nSleeping in the sun,<br \/>\nI am just the sun.<br \/>\nI was born from the afterbirth of rain.<br \/>\nI hope it will rain again.<\/p>\n<p>I am a moth coming out of its cocoon,<br \/>\nwith no idea of where to go<br \/>\nor where to come from.<br \/>\nI am being born minute to minute,<br \/>\nwalking on hot sand.<br \/>\nChilled by the emptiness between my bones.<br \/>\nI corrode in summer<br \/>\nand rust in winter,<br \/>\nand become imaginal in spring.<br \/>\nBest, is to be burned in autumn<br \/>\nlike old leaves,<br \/>\nleaving a sweet smell behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am dissolving like a sugar cube. Words melt before I can use them. The world looks the same out of the left eye or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2960\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sleeping in the Sun<\/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-2960","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\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}