{"id":337,"date":"2016-07-16T01:37:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T00:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2016-07-04T02:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:39:29","slug":"brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I write about extraordinary<br \/>\nI use blood as ink.<br \/>\nI climb a trellis to search for light.<br \/>\nThere is porridge in a bowl<br \/>\nwith sugar and milk<br \/>\nspilled on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The past is future,<br \/>\nas much as anything.<br \/>\nI breathe in my brother\u2019s lungs.<br \/>\nI see sunshine<br \/>\nshine in his tears,<br \/>\nrun miles and miles synchronized<br \/>\ntogether,<br \/>\nwoven in a life.<\/p>\n<p>We climbed stones,<br \/>\nbattled bullies,<br \/>\nsat side by side in Gene Autry movies.<br \/>\nLicked cones back and forth<br \/>\nand fought over what mattered most,<br \/>\ntoys.<\/p>\n<p>Then met in dreams until birds called us,<br \/>\nfrom miles away at dawn,<br \/>\nbrother flying with brother,<br \/>\nuntil day stops calling, someday.         <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I write about extraordinary I use blood as ink. I climb a trellis to search for light. There is porridge in a bowl with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=337\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brothers<\/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-337","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\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}