{"id":4190,"date":"2014-10-07T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2014-10-07T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:39:30","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/poetry\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>~ <strong>Hope<\/strong> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hope, for happiness.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But of what?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The flesh?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Or of the vine,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> that thee and me entwine.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hope for mortal sin?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Or hope,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> for the virtue<\/em><br \/>\n<em> that also dwells within.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hope for a touch,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and if such hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> should prove too much,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> hope for a word to soothe,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> to refute reality&#8217;s<\/em><br \/>\n<em> cold cruel crush.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hope for words,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> neatly formed up in rows,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> as pleas,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> or simply hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> for words,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> that please.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hope, it is so many things,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hope, for what?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> For Happiness, of course.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Such a simple,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> silly,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> special thing&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Hope ~ ~ Hope, for happiness. But of what? The flesh? Or of the vine, that thee and me entwine. ~ Hope for mortal sin? Or hope, for the virtue that also dwells within. ~ Hope for a touch, and if such hope should prove too much, hope for a word to soothe, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}