{"id":912,"date":"2014-06-14T01:59:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T00:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2014-06-10T02:05:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T01:05:06","slug":"whose-day-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Whose Day Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days are better than others.<br \/>\nIn the crowd of time<br \/>\nwhich hour was the brightest?<br \/>\nHow do you judge one stone<br \/>\nover another?<br \/>\nBoth are a thousand millenniums old.<br \/>\nSurely at that age<br \/>\nthere was an epiphany of change.<br \/>\nOne was sculptured by a glacier,<br \/>\nthe other held in the hand<br \/>\nof a child.<br \/>\nWhat stone was not softened<br \/>\nby that?<\/p>\n<p>So living can be a holiday<br \/>\nor a dead nightingale.<br \/>\nSo I can be frightened at breakfast<br \/>\nor dinner,<br \/>\nbut what of the puppy<br \/>\nwho lives just for me?<br \/>\nThe child who wants to tell me<br \/>\ntheir adventures,<br \/>\nor have me read a story.<\/p>\n<p>I remember my mother\u2019s stories.<br \/>\nFor a moment then,<br \/>\nor for a whole day,<br \/>\nI am smiling.<br \/>\nI want an extra apple<br \/>\nfor someone else.<br \/>\nI want magic to come from the corner<br \/>\nand play.<\/p>\n<p>Who taught us how to play<br \/>\nwith a ball?<br \/>\nWhy do we love kites?<br \/>\nTo enter each other<br \/>\nwith let\u2019s pretend.<br \/>\nWhy kissing feels better<br \/>\nthan frowning.<br \/>\nWhat makes a flower blossom?<br \/>\nThe seed,<br \/>\nor the angel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days are better than others. In the crowd of time which hour was the brightest? How do you judge one stone over another? Both&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=912\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whose Day Is It?<\/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-912","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\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}