{"id":85,"date":"2011-04-12T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=85"},"modified":"2015-05-17T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:32:00","slug":"the-immensity-of-our-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/the-immensity-of-our-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immensity of our Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-85-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheImmensityOfOurNightVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheImmensityOfOurNightVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheImmensityOfOurNightVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, in the immensity of our night<br \/>\nhow can words start from our hearts,<br \/>\nwords that speak of dawn, first waves,<br \/>\nleaf light?<br \/>\nHow out of the wilds of our lives<br \/>\nare we to pluck the one tree,<br \/>\nthe one branch of that tree,<br \/>\nthe one leaf that has the sun<br \/>\nencompassed?<br \/>\nAnd how may our breath work<br \/>\nto word that solitude once seen?<br \/>\nThe word that wakens, that shivers<br \/>\nin the temples of the blood,<br \/>\nbefore the first fire, the trampling multitude,<br \/>\nthe forest thick with dreams,<br \/>\nbefore the wild streams, the lost lakes, the species<br \/>\nback of species where no night, no sun<br \/>\nwas seen, but only immense dawn<br \/>\ndrowning all darkness<br \/>\non the edge of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheImmensityOfOurNightVx3.mp3 &nbsp; Oh, in the immensity of our night how can words start from our hearts, words that speak of dawn, first waves, leaf light? How out of the wilds of our lives are we to pluck the one tree, the one branch of that tree, the one leaf that has the sun encompassed? And [&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-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poemsofbecoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}