{"id":681,"date":"2010-09-12T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2014-05-14T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:11:57","slug":"life-is-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Life is Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, I thought,<br \/>\nlife is short.<br \/>\nAnd then a rain began<br \/>\nto fall in me.<br \/>\nA wind began to blow<br \/>\nand tear the world apart.<br \/>\nThe dirt pulled on my feet<br \/>\nand the life I had lived<br \/>\nbecame a stranger\u2019s life,<br \/>\na life I had led long ago,<br \/>\nsomewhere else,<br \/>\nand in a twinkling,<br \/>\nin the flash of a smile,<br \/>\nI knew I had outgrown time.<\/p>\n<p>I could never hope to know my life.<br \/>\nIt was too huge,<br \/>\ntoo mysterious,<br \/>\ntoo sweet and sad,<br \/>\nand comes to me like riptides,<br \/>\nflashbacks into falling,<br \/>\nand if someone asked,<br \/>\nis life short?<br \/>\nI would tell them,<br \/>\nit is long,<br \/>\nincredibly distant,<br \/>\nand full of notes to myself,<br \/>\nnot to forget,<br \/>\nno matter the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, I thought, life is short. And then a rain began to fall in me. A wind began to blow and tear the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=681\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life is Long<\/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-681","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\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}