{"id":747,"date":"2010-09-26T21:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2010-09-26T21:23:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T20:23:33","slug":"life-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Life on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such a beach<br \/>\nwith its howling.<br \/>\nNo rest.<br \/>\nLike young men slogging<br \/>\nin the sand.<br \/>\nDamsel girls<br \/>\nsplashing like white roses<br \/>\nin the surf.<br \/>\nMy favorite beach<br \/>\nwith the contours of a woman.<br \/>\nAll about song and sex.<br \/>\nThe arguments of people blow away.<br \/>\nNot a sound of them<br \/>\nwhere the water bathes my feet.<br \/>\nIt is my secret.<br \/>\nMy childhood is here.<\/p>\n<p>The arrhythmia of my soul<br \/>\nis quieted.<br \/>\nMy belief sprouts wings.<br \/>\nEverything is life.<br \/>\nThe discovery of my relativity.<br \/>\nLife is or is not,<br \/>\nof its own choosing.<br \/>\nNothing in me is dying.<br \/>\nThe woman I love<br \/>\nis with me.<br \/>\nMy children are living<br \/>\ntheir adventure.<br \/>\nMy grandchildren have the eyes<br \/>\nof wizards,<br \/>\nand perform magic every day.<br \/>\nI am sunning on the beach.<br \/>\nA shore bird.<br \/>\nI am happy,<br \/>\nwhether I want to be or not.<br \/>\nSuch is life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such a beach with its howling. No rest. Like young men slogging in the sand. Damsel girls splashing like white roses in the surf. My&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=747\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life on the Beach<\/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-747","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\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}