{"id":3261,"date":"2017-08-25T01:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2017-08-25T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:00:48","slug":"scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3261","title":{"rendered":"Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is scary.<br \/>\nSometimes,<br \/>\nhalf the time,<br \/>\nsometimes a little,<br \/>\na moment, an hour,<br \/>\nsometimes only in my dreams.<br \/>\nBut what\u2019s the point<br \/>\nof losing my nerve?<br \/>\nIf I become mute<br \/>\nand never speak again?<br \/>\nIt would be like a songbird<br \/>\nwithout its song.<br \/>\nCould happen.<br \/>\nLife returned to silence.<br \/>\nThe earth without its birds,<br \/>\nwithout its songs,<br \/>\nlonger than time itself.<\/p>\n<p>Scary.<br \/>\nNot suffering.<br \/>\nJust that light had never happened,<br \/>\nuntil stars<br \/>\nshattered the darkness,<br \/>\nbefore then,<br \/>\neverything was eternally invisible.<br \/>\nScary.<br \/>\nSo why should I<br \/>\nbe afraid of tomorrow?<br \/>\nThe next millennium?<br \/>\nThat I would be alone,<br \/>\nand never have the peace<br \/>\nof sleeping as I slept before?<br \/>\nWaking up<br \/>\nto love my sacred ones,<br \/>\nand being afraid<br \/>\nof losing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is scary. Sometimes, half the time, sometimes a little, a moment, an hour, sometimes only in my dreams. But what\u2019s the point of losing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3261\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scary<\/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-3261","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\/3261","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=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}