{"id":3492,"date":"2016-05-25T01:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2016-05-22T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T02:02:53","slug":"why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3492","title":{"rendered":"Why Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will not ask questions<br \/>\nof this perfect place.<br \/>\nI will ask anti-questions.<br \/>\nNot why but why not?<br \/>\nWhy not<br \/>\nthat we are born<br \/>\nand should be born,<br \/>\nand born, and born?<br \/>\nWhy not, every voice<br \/>\nis the stone speaking at last?<\/p>\n<p>Why not that youth be wiser<br \/>\nand should be our teacher?<br \/>\nWhy not,<br \/>\nthat love is a rhapsody<br \/>\ninside the last step ever taken?<br \/>\nWhy not that God<br \/>\nwas the playmate who chased us<br \/>\nas a child,<br \/>\nand waited for us after school?<\/p>\n<p>Why not that poetry is science<br \/>\non a higher level,<br \/>\nimmune to metaphysical stars?<br \/>\nWhy not that wonder<br \/>\nis the first explanation of everything?<br \/>\nWhy not,<br \/>\nthat pain is a terrible gift<br \/>\nsent to us from heaven?<br \/>\nWhy not<br \/>\nthat every second<br \/>\ncosts the universe a star?<\/p>\n<p>Why not<br \/>\nthat there are more seconds in us<br \/>\nthan in all of time?<br \/>\nWhy not that death<br \/>\ndie in peace when it overtakes us?<br \/>\nWhy ask questions of the impossible,<br \/>\nwhen the impossible<br \/>\ndoes not question itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will not ask questions of this perfect place. I will ask anti-questions. Not why but why not? Why not that we are born and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3492\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Not<\/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-3492","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\/3492","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=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}