{"id":396,"date":"2010-05-24T18:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2010-05-24T18:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:16:02","slug":"a-truth-for-jackie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"A Truth for Jackie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must begin somehow,<br \/>\nsomeway, to tell you the truth.<br \/>\nThe faith I have in puddles,<br \/>\nin dirt,<br \/>\nin the air that surrounds your soul.<br \/>\nEverything I see is a hologram<br \/>\nof everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Everything has fingers.<br \/>\nMy eyes touch stone<br \/>\nand they are firmed with hardness.<br \/>\nThey fold me into their edges.<br \/>\nThey facet me into crystal<br \/>\nand take me as light<br \/>\ninto their veins,<br \/>\nand I give them my sea,<br \/>\nmy blood,<br \/>\nthe tidal storms<br \/>\nof a thousand moons,<br \/>\nand the rock grows with me<br \/>\nforever changed.<br \/>\nI possess the poems of ancient stars.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is on the counter of time,<br \/>\nand everything is a truth,<br \/>\nthe faraway call of another voice.<br \/>\nTruth is what I want for you.<br \/>\nThe knowledge of one idea,<br \/>\none small flood of water,<br \/>\nyour face shining<br \/>\nin the puddle of your dream.<br \/>\nWe are forever.<br \/>\nWe are forever,<br \/>\na form of happiness.<br \/>\nThat is the way it is,<br \/>\nmy small beloved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must begin somehow, someway, to tell you the truth. The faith I have in puddles, in dirt, in the air that surrounds your soul.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=396\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Truth for Jackie<\/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-396","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\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}