{"id":379,"date":"2016-07-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2016-07-04T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:40:09","slug":"bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night<br \/>\nI looked at bats in the twilight.<br \/>\nTheir silent voices<br \/>\ncalling to the opening stars,<br \/>\nthe cicadas screeching in the trees,<br \/>\nand I listened to music<br \/>\nI could imagine,<br \/>\nhear with the chambers<br \/>\nof my old ears restored.<\/p>\n<p>Life is what is let inside!<br \/>\nI will open the windows again,<br \/>\nand hold up my empty arms,<br \/>\nand perhaps an embrace<br \/>\nwill fall from heaven,<br \/>\nand the sea will come back<br \/>\nwith its music,<br \/>\nand I can talk in another language,<br \/>\nand take a place<br \/>\nin the kingdom of stars and bats,<br \/>\nand children,<br \/>\nand be myself again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I looked at bats in the twilight. Their silent voices calling to the opening stars, the cicadas screeching in the trees, and I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=379\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bats<\/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-379","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\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}