{"id":3424,"date":"2017-09-19T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:03:46","slug":"when-i-grow-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"When I Grow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wind orates poems.<br \/>\nRooms sing with secrets.<br \/>\nPuddles return escaped moonlight.<br \/>\nStars dissolve,<br \/>\nand where they go<br \/>\nI have no inkling.<br \/>\nI am perhaps a throwback,<br \/>\na wildling.<br \/>\nWhen I grow up,<br \/>\nI will be wise, I said.<br \/>\nBut the circumference of the sky<br \/>\ngrew faster than I could.<\/p>\n<p>There was no answer,<br \/>\nto anything I asked.<br \/>\nThe world filled my hands<br \/>\nwith agates, ice, rain, tears,<br \/>\nwings and spiders.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s all I have, it seemed to say,<br \/>\nexcept you,<br \/>\nand mysteries involving black holes<br \/>\nand outer space,<br \/>\nand children shaped<br \/>\nout of an energy called joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind orates poems. Rooms sing with secrets. Puddles return escaped moonlight. Stars dissolve, and where they go I have no inkling. I am perhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3424\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When I Grow Up<\/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-3424","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\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}