{"id":4152,"date":"2015-09-06T01:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T00:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2015-09-01T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T23:46:08","slug":"serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=4152","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will make a date with you<br \/>\nin the future.<br \/>\nI will engage your soul.<br \/>\nI will startle you.<br \/>\nBy my words, find you,<br \/>\nfeel your presence,<br \/>\nconfound the speed of light,<br \/>\nthe shape of rooms<br \/>\nin which to meet.<br \/>\nConfound the heart,<br \/>\ndefy all laws, all equations.<\/p>\n<p>In our human way,<br \/>\ntouching and tasting,<br \/>\ndefy everything.<br \/>\nLogic, as it dissolves<br \/>\nin our love and fear,<br \/>\ntries to trick us<br \/>\nin believing one thing follows another.<br \/>\nThat the stars follow an ordered plan,<br \/>\nthat apples must drop from a tree,<br \/>\nwhen we need to ask,<br \/>\nwhy must it be so?<\/p>\n<p>And my suspicion is confirmed.<br \/>\nIt need not be so.<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t so.<br \/>\nThe world is my heart<br \/>\nreaching out to you.<br \/>\nYour listening and your smile<br \/>\nas you pick up these words,<br \/>\nand throw them like stones<br \/>\ninto a quantum sea.<\/p>\n<p>I am alive,<br \/>\nand you are alive,<br \/>\nhiding in your future.<br \/>\nI taste your lips saying my words,<br \/>\nand we live together<br \/>\nas we always have,<br \/>\nas we have for eternity,<br \/>\nand eternity itself is as we like.<br \/>\nIt can be or not be,<br \/>\nas long as it matters to us,<br \/>\nor not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will make a date with you in the future. I will engage your soul. I will startle you. By my words, find you, feel&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=4152\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serendipity<\/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-4152","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\/4152","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=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}