{"id":3098,"date":"2024-06-05T08:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:15:57","slug":"opening-night-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"Opening Night, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Night<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through attenuated hours and heavy-hooded eyes,<br \/>\nthe inexact shadows, the fears running riot,<br \/>\nthe semblances of stillness, what are we<br \/>\nto believe?<\/p>\n<p>There are so many ready to hiss you off stage<br \/>\neven before the Awakening Scene,<br \/>\nthere are those who seek to freeze you out of their lives<br \/>\nthen high-step away, like Andalusian horses.<br \/>\nYet, through the arched roof of your mouth,<br \/>\nand the unfolding soul, comes nothing but praise.<\/p>\n<p>You are loved by many. You are encircled by angels.<br \/>\nWhen you step in from the rain, at the top of the steps<br \/>\nof the theater, close your umbrella slowly, like<br \/>\na movie star from Paris on opening night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.217.43\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Night by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Through attenuated hours and heavy-hooded eyes, the inexact shadows, the fears running riot, the semblances of stillness, what are we to believe? There are so many ready to hiss you off stage even before the Awakening Scene, there are those who seek to freeze you out of their [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098"}],"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=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}