{"id":670,"date":"2010-09-10T21:39:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-09-10T21:39:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T20:39:43","slug":"dont-waste-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Waste My Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not going to waste this day<br \/>\non doubt, illness.<br \/>\nThis day is like a giant stone,<br \/>\nfound in dirt,<br \/>\nhard in the soft mud.<br \/>\nIt almost fills my palm,<br \/>\na fractured face,<br \/>\nlike a carousel surrounding<br \/>\na sound within itself.<br \/>\nThis day has a secret terrible destiny<br \/>\nin it.<\/p>\n<p>If I turn my back its paths will disappear.<br \/>\nThere will be nothing to break my heart<br \/>\nwith the shudder of its love.<br \/>\nI will remain empty of the dreams<br \/>\nthat would have unfolded.<br \/>\nMy soul will die of starvation.<br \/>\nThe stone will remain uncut and blind.<\/p>\n<p>I will be angry if you waste me,<br \/>\nthe day threatened.<br \/>\nI will cry you to death.<br \/>\nI will hang around your neck<br \/>\nlike a noose of unfilled promises,<br \/>\nbut if you use me,<br \/>\nI will cherish you,<br \/>\nand explode inside you,<br \/>\nand thunder with praise,<br \/>\nsaying, I\u2019m glad to be alive.<br \/>\nI will not waste this gift,<br \/>\nand someone\u2019s hand<br \/>\ncurling around mine will say,<br \/>\nI\u2019m glad you\u2019re alive,<br \/>\nyou make my day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not going to waste this day on doubt, illness. This day is like a giant stone, found in dirt, hard in the soft&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=670\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t Waste My Day<\/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-670","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\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}