{"id":2119,"date":"2020-01-18T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2020-01-19T09:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T14:18:01","slug":"this-heart-by-jennifer-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"This Heart,  By Jennifer Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Heart<\/p>\n<p>By Jennifer Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This snow slows time; falls<\/p>\n<p>With patience only grief understands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watching from this bed,<\/p>\n<p>These legs folded under,<\/p>\n<p>These hands resting on these thighs;<\/p>\n<p>This snow becomes everything<\/p>\n<p>This heart is not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This nearly motionless drifting,<\/p>\n<p>This meticulous chaos beautifully covering<\/p>\n<p>Roads and rooftops, this insinuating<\/p>\n<p>Itself through exposed crowns of trees,<\/p>\n<p>This cold made visible, this sky<\/p>\n<p>Reminding all of us it does whatever wants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things it does not accomplish:<\/p>\n<p>Reaching the little flames of seeds,<\/p>\n<p>Shrouding this fierce compassion burning<\/p>\n<p>Inside this heart\u2014coursing through this blood\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Not here, not today\u2014<\/p>\n<p>The furnace of this heart rages on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Heart By Jennifer Angelina Petro &nbsp; This snow slows time; falls With patience only grief understands. &nbsp; Watching from this bed, These legs folded under, These hands resting on these thighs; This snow becomes everything This heart is not. &nbsp; This nearly motionless drifting, This meticulous chaos beautifully covering Roads and rooftops, this insinuating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1395,359,296,1397,1396,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}