{"id":71,"date":"2011-04-12T17:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-05-25T23:29:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T23:29:28","slug":"the-cavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/the-cavern\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomegranate Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-71-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PomegranateEyes5dB.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PomegranateEyes5dB.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PomegranateEyes5dB.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let the tears start.<br \/>\nIt was so long ago,<br \/>\nlike a distant cry from the forest,<br \/>\nsong echoing through me<br \/>\ninto that deepest cavern\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Why do you look at me<br \/>\nlike that? Your blue eyes<br \/>\nburn me.<\/p>\n<p>If I could only cry like a child\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But I smile instead, thinking of<br \/>\nher body held up to me, offered like a cup,<br \/>\nand I in her\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The song quivered as it rose,<br \/>\nas out of the ground she rose, the mist<br \/>\naround her tossed hair, pomegranate<br \/>\neyes and the fire\u2026 glinting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I am the sacrifice, my dear,<br \/>\nshe meant for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PomegranateEyes5dB.mp3 &nbsp; Don\u2019t let the tears start. It was so long ago, like a distant cry from the forest, song echoing through me into that deepest cavern\u2026 Why do you look at me like that? Your blue eyes burn me. If I could only cry like a child\u2026 But I smile instead, thinking of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovepoems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}