{"id":4052,"date":"2013-12-08T03:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2013-12-09T03:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T02:07:14","slug":"santa-claus-is-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=4052","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus is Coming to Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does infinite time have an<br \/>\nindelible page?<br \/>\nYesterday so many memories<br \/>\nmade themselves.<br \/>\nJackie and Michael saw Santa Claus<br \/>\nat the library.<br \/>\nMichael pasted colored paper.<br \/>\nJackie painted an ornament<br \/>\nof Santa Claus for his Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p>I watched children race outside<br \/>\nin the afternoon glow.<br \/>\nSo cold.<br \/>\nI stood by the curb<br \/>\nwatching mothers,<br \/>\nLisa, Catherine, Bambi,<br \/>\nthen the indelibles,<br \/>\nOlivia, Drew, Greta, Aaron, Jackie, Michael,<br \/>\na boy without name,<br \/>\na sister without name,<br \/>\nall shouting, laughing, playing chase.<\/p>\n<p>I was freezing<br \/>\nunder the huge, blue sky.<br \/>\nWatching the indelibles<br \/>\nof life.<br \/>\nDestiny achieving itself.<br \/>\nAn odyssey across decades<br \/>\nof distance.<br \/>\nThe open shore of life.<\/p>\n<p>Evening<br \/>\nbringing roses to the clouds,<br \/>\ninfinity touching my soul.<br \/>\nStay outside,<br \/>\nI told the world.<br \/>\nNever go to sleep.<br \/>\nNever forget us,<br \/>\nwho we are.<br \/>\nWhat is happening<br \/>\non this illumined day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does infinite time have an indelible page? Yesterday so many memories made themselves. Jackie and Michael saw Santa Claus at the library. Michael pasted colored&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=4052\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santa Claus is Coming to Town<\/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-4052","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\/4052","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=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}