{"id":3469,"date":"2013-07-01T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2013-07-01T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:20:10","slug":"the-melting-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"The Melting Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your beauty<br \/>\ncurled in my hand<br \/>\nlike the curve of the moon.<br \/>\nA nuptial fullness<br \/>\nof diaphanous pearl.<br \/>\nYour eyes flirted<br \/>\nlike flickering comets<br \/>\nin the passion of a dream.<br \/>\nI cannot go there,<br \/>\nwhere the sea<br \/>\nopens its face to heaven.<br \/>\nWhere no man has sailed.<br \/>\nWhere the horizon<br \/>\nis the edge of your cheek,<br \/>\nsunrise,<br \/>\nthe opening of your lips.<\/p>\n<p>Your heart<br \/>\nspeaks in the waves.<br \/>\nI can only wonder<br \/>\nwhere gods go<br \/>\nwhen they want to sleep.<br \/>\nYou, wandering,<br \/>\nfound me like a stone<br \/>\nto pick up<br \/>\nand marvel at its hardness,<br \/>\nuntil the wind<br \/>\ncalled you back.<br \/>\nTo a world<br \/>\nwithout walls.<br \/>\nAnd love leaves tracks<br \/>\nwhere I lost you<br \/>\nin the unfathomable<br \/>\nexpansion of the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your beauty curled in my hand like the curve of the moon. A nuptial fullness of diaphanous pearl. Your eyes flirted like flickering comets in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3469\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Melting Moon<\/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-3469","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\/3469","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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}