{"id":3782,"date":"2016-06-11T01:18:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2016-06-04T22:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:20:03","slug":"too-soon-the-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"Too Soon the Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So why does my heart go there?<br \/>\nWhy do I fall into the tenderness<br \/>\nof a voice?<br \/>\nListen, as if from afar,<br \/>\nto something I am not,<br \/>\nto something I wrap around myself<br \/>\nlike a shore to a sea,<br \/>\nand say,<br \/>\nyou make me into a universe.<br \/>\nYou release old and sad memories<br \/>\nof my complete destruction,<br \/>\nand now I am born into a new song,<br \/>\na new way.<\/p>\n<p>I sit and watch the world<br \/>\ndare to exist,<br \/>\nbecause you took me from myself<br \/>\nand lost me,<br \/>\nput me far away from old endings.<br \/>\nSo everything I see is new,<br \/>\na christening.<br \/>\nYou have given me a new face,<br \/>\na new tongue,<br \/>\nand I will never be ancient again,<\/p>\n<p>I will never wear away<br \/>\nlike a great cliff,<br \/>\ngazing into its falling.<br \/>\nI will have flown away,<br \/>\nlike a bird that dies at sunset<br \/>\nand rises at dawn,<br \/>\nalive for as long as time<br \/>\ndesires to be time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why does my heart go there? Why do I fall into the tenderness of a voice? Listen, as if from afar, to something I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3782\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too Soon the Dawn<\/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-3782","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\/3782","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=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}