{"id":2136,"date":"2014-08-23T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2014-08-23T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:21:34","slug":"letter-to-emily-bronte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/letter-to-emily-bronte\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Emily Bronte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Miss Emily Bronte of the sisters five<\/p>\n<p>How did you create love as a muddled hive?<\/p>\n<p>How dare Catherine defy the love she never hated?<\/p>\n<p>Why did you not simplify love as it was created?<\/p>\n<p>I had often thought to ask of Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights<\/p>\n<p>To know where he ventured in your sights<\/p>\n<p>Miss Bronte, if I may, my curiosity is not restrained<\/p>\n<p>How indeed did you know love so untrained?<\/p>\n<p>It is with love, horror, smiles and grief and memories much<\/p>\n<p>I read your thoughts, those words were such<\/p>\n<p>Engulfed in a mystifying mystery so beautiful<\/p>\n<p>Lord knows what other thoughts lived there and how bountiful<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me, for I meant to take not much of your time \u2018<\/p>\n<p>But I have learned this much, at day and night<\/p>\n<p>You are also part of the cult, the kind that creates fantasy<\/p>\n<p>Writers! Your magic remains a mystery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Miss Emily Bronte of the sisters five How did you create love as a muddled hive? How dare Catherine defy the love she never hated? Why did you not simplify love as it was created? I had often thought to ask of Heathcliff of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","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\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}