{"id":502,"date":"2014-03-22T02:21:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2014-03-16T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T19:11:47","slug":"the-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"The Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new watch with a clear face.<br \/>\nA clean, unblemished wheel of time.<br \/>\nIts life began now when I wound it.<br \/>\nI am like a God who gave away eternity,<br \/>\nand I will never be the same again.<br \/>\nI belong now to a realm of dimensions<br \/>\nwhere my life will vanish.<br \/>\nWhere my life will never be measured<br \/>\nby the ache of a heart.<br \/>\nWhere love can say I am yours forever.<\/p>\n<p>For now,<br \/>\nI am a watch,<br \/>\nlooking at seconds pivot around their track,<br \/>\ntelling me that I am ordained<br \/>\nto have only so many,<br \/>\nand then it is over.<br \/>\nAnd people will ask how long did he live?<br \/>\nAnd someone who loved me will say,<br \/>\nuntil he turned on time,<br \/>\nand broke his heart<br \/>\nby seeing the end of what he thought<br \/>\ncould never die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new watch with a clear face. A clean, unblemished wheel of time. Its life began now when I wound it. I am&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=502\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Watch<\/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-502","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\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4274,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}