{"id":3671,"date":"2016-06-03T01:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2016-05-22T03:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T02:09:56","slug":"the-cradle-of-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3671","title":{"rendered":"The Cradle of Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The catastrophic arms<br \/>\nof the Andes,<br \/>\nwhich spring traps<br \/>\ntoo late to flee.<br \/>\nThe stoic odyssey<br \/>\nof its Inca children<br \/>\nwho accepted death,<br \/>\nat the hands<br \/>\nof their gods.<br \/>\nThey went<br \/>\nto subliminal heights.<br \/>\nTo the clouds in the heavens.<\/p>\n<p>Voices, in ravines<br \/>\nof terrifying proportions.<br \/>\nReaching to the ultimate mansions<br \/>\nof the spirit.<br \/>\nWhere the gods<br \/>\nordained the evaporation<br \/>\nof the soul,<br \/>\nreaching with white fingers<br \/>\namong the peaks.<br \/>\nMachu Picchu, city of the gods,<br \/>\nwhere men cannot breathe<br \/>\nwithout understanding<br \/>\nthe divine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The catastrophic arms of the Andes, which spring traps too late to flee. The stoic odyssey of its Inca children who accepted death, at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3671\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cradle of Machu Picchu<\/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-3671","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\/3671","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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}