{"id":400,"date":"2010-05-24T18:39:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2010-05-24T18:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:39:06","slug":"words-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Words That Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shall never be able to say<br \/>\nwhat really matters.<br \/>\nI know only what my heart knows,<br \/>\nand it refuses to release the words.<br \/>\nNot that it is different from myself,<br \/>\nbut do we own everything<br \/>\nthat we are?<br \/>\nDoes the workaday deserve<br \/>\nwhat is rare or extraordinary in us?<br \/>\nCan one pray to the public?<br \/>\nMake love in a stadium?<br \/>\nTell a child the secrets<br \/>\nof grass and trees?<br \/>\nTouch the bark of an oak<br \/>\nand explain the softness of a hand?<br \/>\nIt is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The language of the soul travels light years.<br \/>\nIt comes from the seed<br \/>\nof forever\u2019s beginning.<br \/>\nIt looks at the world and tells the eyes,<br \/>\nthis is the garden of all becoming,<br \/>\nthe valley of all journeys,<br \/>\nso I shall be quiet.<br \/>\nI will love,<br \/>\naware of an infinite source.<br \/>\nI will know,<br \/>\nbut have no words to tell you<br \/>\nwhat I know.<br \/>\nI will love you,<br \/>\nwith a heart that is flying.<br \/>\nI will simply walk through the day<br \/>\nand follow you with my eyes,<br \/>\nloving you,<br \/>\nand not explaining,<br \/>\npassing the time of day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shall never be able to say what really matters. I know only what my heart knows, and it refuses to release the words. Not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=400\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Words That Matter<\/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-400","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\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}