{"id":3856,"date":"2013-10-09T03:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2013-10-09T03:43:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T02:43:15","slug":"whose-truth-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3856","title":{"rendered":"Whose Truth Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come back to hound you<br \/>\nwith the truth, shy person,<br \/>\nwith eyes as wide as streets.<br \/>\nDoes it matter where life has taken you<br \/>\non its lattice of flowers,<br \/>\nits trellis of green fingers?<br \/>\nThat you come on the morning<br \/>\nintense as the gesture of your smile.<br \/>\nDoes the truth matter to you?<br \/>\nWho handles it like a sparrow<br \/>\noblivious to enemies,<br \/>\nto the hook of a fisherman like myself.<\/p>\n<p>Love is the perfect honesty.<br \/>\nYou love so easily,<br \/>\nartless as a fawn,<br \/>\na baby gazing at its mother.<br \/>\nYou do not question day or night,<br \/>\nor time,<br \/>\nor life itself.<br \/>\nIt all comes together<br \/>\nin a perfect congress of hearts<br \/>\nof absolute and loving intention.<\/p>\n<p>So why should I question<br \/>\nwhat you know,<br \/>\nlike a river falling into mist,<br \/>\na tree sheltering and open,<br \/>\nits face a part of sky itself.<br \/>\nYou know not a truth,<br \/>\nbut many truths,<br \/>\nlike the notes of a happy song,<br \/>\nthe grains of sand assembled as a shore,<br \/>\nseconds flowing into the matrix of a life.<br \/>\nYou know all these things.<br \/>\nYou do not see anything without its face,<br \/>\nits golden vision.<br \/>\nYou are a person<br \/>\nblessed with the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come back to hound you with the truth, shy person, with eyes as wide as streets. Does it matter where life has taken you&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3856\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whose Truth Anyway<\/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-3856","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\/3856","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=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}