{"id":20003,"date":"2016-08-13T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20003"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:54:10","slug":"the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hush, the baby is sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>I want her to dream her dream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the vision stretches far<\/p>\n<p>like a sea of mercy..<\/p>\n<p>mysterious and deep.<\/p>\n<p>Hush, for she will awake<\/p>\n<p>if we don&#8217;t tread in silence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>like fairies on tiptoe<\/p>\n<p>through the lilies, unsullied.<\/p>\n<p>Her closed eyes<\/p>\n<p>now open upon the sight<\/p>\n<p>of a great City.<\/p>\n<p>The flowers sing, the birds talk,<\/p>\n<p>and there is pain no more.<\/p>\n<p>Hush, for the baby is sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>She is dreaming a dream.<\/p>\n<p>I will eat no more today.<\/p>\n<p>But, she is dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hush, the baby is sleeping. I want her to dream her dream&#8230; the vision stretches far like a sea of mercy.. mysterious and deep. Hush, for she will awake if we don&#8217;t tread in silence&#8230; like fairies on tiptoe through the lilies, unsullied. Her closed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20079,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions\/20079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}