{"id":3941,"date":"2015-08-03T01:22:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2015-12-02T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:43:49","slug":"the-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"The Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have yet<br \/>\nto find our language.<br \/>\nIs there one that speaks<br \/>\nso clearly as the sea?<br \/>\nSo many words<br \/>\nin the fastness of the waves.<br \/>\nIn the sky<br \/>\nthe rhythm and cadence<br \/>\nof the unceasing litany<br \/>\nof the air.<br \/>\nWords that respond to ours<br \/>\nas if there is a heart<br \/>\nwith a language<br \/>\nthat becomes our own.<br \/>\nAn animus that<br \/>\nword by word<br \/>\nbecomes the dialect<br \/>\nof love, dreams,<br \/>\nof what it is<br \/>\nthat wants to speak<br \/>\nand speaking,<br \/>\nhears what the world<br \/>\nis saying, in a language<br \/>\ninstantly our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have yet to find our language. Is there one that speaks so clearly as the sea? So many words in the fastness of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3941\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Language<\/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-3941","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\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}