{"id":3374,"date":"2013-06-06T03:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2013-06-15T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T02:59:00","slug":"the-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"The Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is not afraid of me<br \/>\nI go about my tasks in the garden,<br \/>\nas if he were not there.<br \/>\nI look and we exchange glances,<br \/>\nbut only for a moment.<br \/>\nWe see each other<br \/>\nand that is enough.<br \/>\nI feel emanations between us,<br \/>\nshared breaths,<br \/>\nas if we were comrades,<br \/>\nfriends.<br \/>\nAs if the corolla of our spirits<br \/>\nwere entwined, touching.<\/p>\n<p>I am a sentimentalist.<br \/>\nThe tribe I belong to<br \/>\nincludes rabbits, grass, trees.<br \/>\nJackie already hugs the trees.<br \/>\nIt is a privilege to have life,<br \/>\nown life,<br \/>\nshare life,<br \/>\nbe life.<br \/>\nIt is a chorus of singing,<br \/>\nan enveloping of the earth,<br \/>\nthe stones,<br \/>\nthe water.<\/p>\n<p>Life plunges into everything,<br \/>\nand everything answers,<br \/>\nembraces,<br \/>\nspeaks.<br \/>\nSo the rabbit has his place,<br \/>\nchewing and listening quietly<br \/>\nto my thoughts.<br \/>\nHe hears them,<br \/>\nand feels my care for him.<br \/>\nHe is important,<br \/>\na brother,<br \/>\na life,<br \/>\na loved one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is not afraid of me I go about my tasks in the garden, as if he were not there. I look and we exchange&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3374\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rabbit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","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\/3374","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=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}