{"id":1294,"date":"2011-03-28T05:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T04:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2011-03-28T05:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T04:53:28","slug":"a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/28\/a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of poems on the many loves of humanity is coming out later this year. This is love in old age:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your eyes speak of my youth and my hand holds<br \/>\nYours with that ease of emotion only<br \/>\nYears can grow; suppleness has changed to folds,<br \/>\nWrinkles crease our nakedness, laughingly<br \/>\nThe young would fun. What do they know? Your breasts<br \/>\nSuckled our children (and me once or twice),<br \/>\nAnd now our skins are thin, our love\u2019s contests<br \/>\nAre tactile drawings of our minds, which slice<br \/>\nInto our hours, sending ripples of sex<br \/>\nAround the day &#8211; I kissed your body in<br \/>\nTo my being so now it is the text<br \/>\nFrom which I read &#8211; for everything &#8211; loving.<\/p>\n<p>Tenderness does not age, how then can we?<br \/>\nLook into my eyes,  see your youth in me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of poems on the many loves of humanity is coming out later this year. This is love in old age: &nbsp; Your eyes speak of my youth and my hand holds Yours with that ease of emotion only Years can grow; suppleness has changed to folds, Wrinkles crease our nakedness, laughingly The young&#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":[437],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming_publication","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}