{"id":572,"date":"2010-08-26T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2010-08-26T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T16:39:36","slug":"to-open-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"To Open A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to say<br \/>\nevery pretty thing in your heart.<br \/>\nAdjectives, bendings,<br \/>\nribbons, being drowned.<br \/>\nThe soil opening.<br \/>\nThe inner nut, the last breath,<br \/>\nthe paroxysm of sex and sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Leaf by leaf to uncurl the heavens,<br \/>\nexpose the root,<br \/>\nspread the wing,<br \/>\neverything that fills your head,<br \/>\nhurts your soul,<br \/>\nmakes you say hello<br \/>\nand tremble touching a hand.<br \/>\nAnd feeling, tasting,<br \/>\nwashing everything.<\/p>\n<p>When the plain surface<br \/>\nopens its eyes,<br \/>\nthen, and then,<br \/>\nyou will find something<br \/>\nthat belongs to you.<br \/>\nWorth saying.<br \/>\nLips pressing on lips,<br \/>\nleaving a name behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to say every pretty thing in your heart. Adjectives, bendings, ribbons, being drowned. The soil opening. The inner nut, the last breath, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=572\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Open A Poem<\/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-572","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\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}