{"id":403,"date":"2011-09-03T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T20:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2011-09-03T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T20:17:34","slug":"sonnet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><br \/>\n(for Anne, on the seventeenth anniversary of our first date)<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThis southern sun cannot eclipse the pale<br \/>\nAnd dark eternal moment under moon<br \/>\nWhen heaven&#8217;s vault baptized our dusty trail<br \/>\nAnd future wand&#8217;rings, holy and picayune.<br \/>\nThough breaking tides have crashed with fearsome power<br \/>\nAgainst the tender union born of love,<br \/>\nThe lunar pull sustains each potent hour<br \/>\nThat gravity our souls were dreaming of.<br \/>\nSo waning fashions cannot stay the sun,<br \/>\nNor waxing passions shake the timeless sphere.<br \/>\nIn moondark rays our breathless breaths are one<br \/>\nAs when we once orbited the silent deer.<br \/>\nA silent glance still strikes its resonant chime<br \/>\nIn bodies moving still through celestial time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for Anne, on the seventeenth anniversary of our first date) This southern sun cannot eclipse the pale And dark eternal moment under moon When heaven&#8217;s vault baptized our dusty trail And future wand&#8217;rings, holy and picayune. Though breaking tides have crashed with fearsome power Against the tender union born of love, The lunar pull sustains &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sonnet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}