{"id":3587,"date":"2013-08-04T19:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2013-08-12T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T13:34:18","slug":"touching-the-wall-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"Touching the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I have said it,<br \/>\nthen stop here.<br \/>\nIt will do you no good<br \/>\nto hear my complaining.<br \/>\nWhy I try to find answers<br \/>\nto questions I haven\u2019t posed.<br \/>\nLike going through a cave without light.<br \/>\nWhat?  What?<br \/>\nAs I go along feeling my way.<br \/>\nShould I be terrified<br \/>\nor progress with faith?<br \/>\nWhere is my foot stepping?<\/p>\n<p>Did I destroy something beautiful?<br \/>\nWhere is the sound of the earth\u2019s heart?<br \/>\nWhy does the dark<br \/>\nhave walls harder than stone?<br \/>\nShould I say such things<br \/>\nwhen day shines so brightly?<br \/>\nWhy can\u2019t I leave well enough alone<br \/>\nand not burden words?<br \/>\nTrying to say what I am trying to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I have said it, then stop here. It will do you no good to hear my complaining. Why I try to find answers to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3587\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Touching the Wall<\/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-3587","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\/3587","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=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}