{"id":1558,"date":"2014-06-22T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T00:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2015-05-17T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T00:12:08","slug":"first-light-that-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/first-light-that-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"First Light that Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1558-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/FirstLightThatSawVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/FirstLightThatSawVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/FirstLightThatSawVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Light on his face,<br \/>\nlight from the ceiling fan filling his features<br \/>\nopening the eyes behind glowing lids\u2014<br \/>\nthe desire to see,<br \/>\npressing his shoulder blades to the bone,<br \/>\nthe desire to live, the desire to make<br \/>\nof his world not a box of dreams;<br \/>\nexulting mask on the table,<br \/>\nready to put on,<br \/>\nfor the wearer is not afraid.<br \/>\nLight from the flower leaves<br \/>\nwetting the grass petals<br \/>\nin summer where the stone grows,<br \/>\nlight on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Light on his brain along the curvature of fossilized matter,<br \/>\nout of old bones,<br \/>\nfirst light that saw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/FirstLightThatSawVx3.mp3 &nbsp; Light on his face, light from the ceiling fan filling his features opening the eyes behind glowing lids\u2014 the desire to see, pressing his shoulder blades to the bone, the desire to live, the desire to make of his world not a box of dreams; exulting mask on the table, ready to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poemsofbecoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}