{"id":3335,"date":"2016-05-18T01:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T00:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2016-05-03T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:20:20","slug":"summer-lassitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3335","title":{"rendered":"Summer Lassitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am waiting for a storm.<br \/>\nSomething to break the monotony.<br \/>\nA bow of red on the radar.<br \/>\nBehind it calm.<br \/>\nBut wildness in its face.<br \/>\nThe clawing of arms,<br \/>\nchasing little creatures into holes,<br \/>\nbirds shivering on their nests.<\/p>\n<p>Pulling the clouds apart<br \/>\nstitch by stitch,<br \/>\nunraveling the bed.<br \/>\nA howling drunkard at the door.<br \/>\nWhat my blood needs,<br \/>\na hurricane inside me,<br \/>\nto go out slapped and pummeled,<br \/>\nfeeling life well up<br \/>\nin a gargantuan fist<br \/>\nwith death as a partner.<\/p>\n<p>And then,<br \/>\nwhen it is over,<br \/>\nexhausted,<br \/>\nfeeling the calm fall of rain<br \/>\non the ruins,<br \/>\nhear the whispering of water<br \/>\nwashing the street.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what I want.<br \/>\nThe rendering of this<br \/>\nhumid lassitude,<br \/>\ninto a tart juice<br \/>\nfalling inside me,<br \/>\na cherry,<br \/>\nsour,<br \/>\nwith its hard pit in my mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am waiting for a storm. Something to break the monotony. A bow of red on the radar. Behind it calm. But wildness in its&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3335\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer Lassitude<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","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\/3335","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=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}