{"id":16474,"date":"2012-11-18T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T11:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16474"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:05:52","slug":"poetry-sunday-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16474","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Catechism for a Witch&#8217;s Child<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When they ask to see your gods<br \/>\nyour book of prayers<br \/>\nshow them lines<br \/>\ndrawn delicately with veins<br \/>\non the underside of a bird&#8217;s wing<br \/>\ntell them you believe<br \/>\nin giant sycamores mottled<br \/>\nand stark against a winter sky<br \/>\nand in nights so frozen<br \/>\nstars crack open spilling<br \/>\nstreams of molten ice to earth<br \/>\nand tell them how you drink<br \/>\na holy wine of honeysuckle<br \/>\non a warm spring day<br \/>\nand of the softness<br \/>\nof your mother who never taught you<br \/>\ndeath was life&#8217;s reward<br \/>\nbut who believed in the earth<br \/>\nand the sun<br \/>\nand a million, million light years<br \/>\nof being<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; J. L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catechism for a Witch&#8217;s Child When they ask to see your gods your book of prayers show them lines drawn delicately with veins on the underside of a bird&#8217;s wing tell them you believe in giant sycamores mottled and stark against a winter sky and in nights so frozen stars crack open spilling streams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16481,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions\/16481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}