{"id":3256,"date":"2017-08-23T01:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:50:09","slug":"how-fire-is-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"How Fire is Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dewdrop of atoms.<br \/>\nThe way water cuts a glacier in two.<br \/>\nDivided sleep<br \/>\nbetween two fires of sunset and dawn.<br \/>\nWhy the heart is made of ash.<br \/>\nTo live it burned in fire,<br \/>\ntouched the mouth of another<br \/>\nand ignited.<br \/>\nEven the diamond burns in the light,<br \/>\nfills the hands<br \/>\nwith the brightness of a prayer,<br \/>\nhides in the blackest space<br \/>\nand becomes a star.<\/p>\n<p>The waste of the sea<br \/>\nconsumed in foam,<br \/>\na rolling tide of brightness,<br \/>\nfire from the white volcanoes<br \/>\nin its darkness,<br \/>\nwhere the earth consumes itself.<br \/>\nThe fire inside the cold ambition<br \/>\nof a saint,<br \/>\nthe child glowing in the sun with radiance.<\/p>\n<p>Everything warmed and moved<br \/>\nby its conflagration,<br \/>\nuntil there is nothing in the end.<br \/>\nUntil the space left by fire<br \/>\nwaits for the last moment of eternity<br \/>\nand blazes up,<br \/>\nto begin again,<br \/>\nhow fire is made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dewdrop of atoms. The way water cuts a glacier in two. Divided sleep between two fires of sunset and dawn. Why the heart is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3256\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Fire is Made<\/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-3256","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\/3256","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=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}