{"id":1242,"date":"2011-04-24T05:59:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T04:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2011-04-24T05:59:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T04:59:58","slug":"to-my-future-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/24\/to-my-future-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"To My Future Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lived &#8211; air on tongue, light on hair, skin sea<br \/>\nTouched, fingers horse maned, tired eyes soft-pillowed<br \/>\nA last loving, wall builder drinking tea<br \/>\nIn a garden rich with roses, willowed.<br \/>\nMy dirt hands wrote and dug, planted in ink<br \/>\nSeeded commas and sentences, infant<br \/>\nWords grown from experiences, thought-linked,<br \/>\nStained in the grain of the woods, indifferent.<br \/>\nI lived. Saw the dead rotting from war waste<br \/>\nHasty hatred sucking at lives like sweets<br \/>\nAs if there were some glory in the taste<br \/>\nMouth-rimmed like newborns at their mother\u2019s teats.<\/p>\n<p>You live &#8211; and have seen what I\u2019ve never seen<br \/>\nAnd taken my words where I\u2019ve never been.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From &#8216;Loves&#8217; a series of modern sonnets on the theme of love by Daniel Nanavati<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lived &#8211; air on tongue, light on hair, skin sea Touched, fingers horse maned, tired eyes soft-pillowed A last loving, wall builder drinking tea In a garden rich with roses, willowed. My dirt hands wrote and dug, planted in ink Seeded commas and sentences, infant Words grown from experiences, thought-linked, Stained in the grain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming_publication","tag-daniel-nanavati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}