{"id":749,"date":"2014-05-23T01:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2014-05-22T02:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:09:39","slug":"a-blessing-mid-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"A Blessing Mid Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to fathom<br \/>\nwhere a year must plunge.<br \/>\nEvents must stretch<br \/>\nwith time and fate.<br \/>\nThe indestructible survives.<br \/>\nI stopped at the edge<br \/>\nof a place called life,<br \/>\nand met an inconvenient truth<br \/>\ncalled death, cutting grass.<br \/>\nNo special introduction.<br \/>\nThey say love happens<br \/>\njust like that,<br \/>\na fist hitting you inside,<br \/>\ncalamity or paradise.<\/p>\n<p>But this was not love<br \/>\nat its first sight,<br \/>\nbeing a veteran of that,<br \/>\nthis was quite literally<br \/>\na heart about to break,<br \/>\nand a profound resignation<br \/>\nthat a beat away<br \/>\nlove might be gone,<br \/>\nnot enough to have known<br \/>\nor lived,<br \/>\nexcept an answer to a prayer,<br \/>\nI\u2019ve given you love again.<br \/>\nFare thee well, my son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to fathom where a year must plunge. Events must stretch with time and fate. The indestructible survives. I stopped at the edge&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=749\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Blessing Mid Summer<\/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-749","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\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}