{"id":716,"date":"2010-09-19T23:41:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2010-09-19T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:41:12","slug":"soul-watcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Soul Watcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did the pterodactyls sound<br \/>\nlike the Canadian geese<br \/>\nhonking overhead?<br \/>\nDid they sail outlined in their chorus<br \/>\nby grace, configuration of flight?<br \/>\nWho believes the earth<br \/>\nhas a soul?<br \/>\nNot I says the skeptic!<br \/>\nNot I says the cynic!<br \/>\nBut above me I saw a soul<br \/>\nsketched on the sky,<br \/>\nor a piece of soul<br \/>\nin the contour of an arrow<br \/>\npersisting in the heavens.<\/p>\n<p>With my own eyes I saw<br \/>\nwhat Judas could not see,<br \/>\nthe dinosaurs singing!<br \/>\nStill living in the world,<br \/>\neating the corn left in the<br \/>\nadjacent fields.<br \/>\nNothing changed,<br \/>\nfor the unimaginal soul.<br \/>\nI stand without wings<br \/>\nlifting my arms to the ache<br \/>\nof a song at dusk.<br \/>\nWho believes in the soul?<br \/>\nThe soul I see chasing tomorrow<br \/>\nin the horizon,<br \/>\nsounding the bell of itself<br \/>\nabove me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the pterodactyls sound like the Canadian geese honking overhead? Did they sail outlined in their chorus by grace, configuration of flight? Who believes the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=716\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soul Watcher<\/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-716","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\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}