{"id":498,"date":"2014-03-20T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2015-04-06T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:03:24","slug":"the-face-of-wit-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"The Face of Wit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind all comics is a very sad face.<br \/>\nA face kept from us with humor,<br \/>\nand we laugh,<br \/>\noblivious to the weeping<br \/>\nin the pause of their voices,<br \/>\nan unnatural sign of exhaustion.<br \/>\nLike a child<br \/>\nthat cries itself to sleep<br \/>\nbecause no one came,<br \/>\nand all their tears turned to ice<br \/>\nso they could never fill their eyes again.<br \/>\nAnd a scream inside them<br \/>\nturned to laughter,<br \/>\nwit to mask their sense of chaos<br \/>\nand silence,<br \/>\nsilencing their sorrow<br \/>\nwith a gift for words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind all comics is a very sad face. A face kept from us with humor, and we laugh, oblivious to the weeping in the pause&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=498\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Face of Wit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","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\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}