{"id":4557,"date":"2015-05-11T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2015-05-11T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T01:44:28","slug":"rhododendron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/poetry\/rhododendron\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhododendron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>~ <strong>Rhododendron<\/strong> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A picture of beauty pristine<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of divinity still hidden unseen<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of beauty yet to come<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of a mortal&#8217;s desire undone<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of time captured forever<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of moments denied and now never<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of petals basking in sunshine<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of beauty unseen, yet sublime.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4559\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rhododendron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4559\" src=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rhododendron-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"snapshots, frozen in time\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">snapshots, frozen in time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I took this picture of a\u00a0Rhododendron I will not see open in bloom minutes before I left on a trip. Perhaps it will still be in bloom when I return. Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures&#8230; they might be considered fragments of eternity captured. Though they don&#8217;t truly freeze time, in some ways they do. This flower will still bloom, even while its essence here remains set forever in the fabric of a virtual world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Rhododendron ~ ~ A picture of beauty pristine Of divinity still hidden unseen Of beauty yet to come Of a mortal&#8217;s desire undone Of time captured forever Of moments denied and now never Of petals basking in sunshine Of beauty unseen, yet sublime. ~ I took this picture of a\u00a0Rhododendron I will not see [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","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=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}