{"id":3163,"date":"2017-08-02T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2017-08-03T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:23:23","slug":"if-it-be-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"If It Be Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every life is a forest.<br \/>\nDense in places.<br \/>\nOpen spots.<br \/>\nSunlight falling through a canopy.<br \/>\nTasks, people,<br \/>\nchildren never growing old,<br \/>\nvoices filling the silence<br \/>\ninside ourselves.<br \/>\nHow many pages fill a life?<\/p>\n<p>The story of life is immense.<br \/>\nTo write down a day<br \/>\ncould take a year.<br \/>\nA life runs so hot,<br \/>\nmoves so fast.<br \/>\nArchipelagoes are formed and flooded,<br \/>\nsunsets fall at different sites.<br \/>\nThe synopsis of dreams<br \/>\nis bigger than the book.<br \/>\nWhat has God wrought in us,<br \/>\nbut itself.<\/p>\n<p>Biography is a drop in the sea.<br \/>\nSky, flying off the horizon.<br \/>\nAn orchard that covers earth.<br \/>\nNot a grain of sand is wasted.<br \/>\nNeeded to create beaches<br \/>\nto leave our footprints,<br \/>\nwhere they can be found<br \/>\nand pulled back from death.<br \/>\nNever quite a story that can end,<br \/>\nwith so many plots<br \/>\nto be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every life is a forest. Dense in places. Open spots. Sunlight falling through a canopy. Tasks, people, children never growing old, voices filling the silence&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3163\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If It Be Told<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3163","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\/3163","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=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}