{"id":1,"date":"2015-01-30T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-02-18T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T23:07:09","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"THE ILLUSIONIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hexagon-sphere-imploding-728.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-343\" src=\"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hexagon-sphere-imploding-728-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"hexagon-sphere-imploding-728\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hexagon-sphere-imploding-728-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hexagon-sphere-imploding-728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hexagon-sphere-imploding-728-250x146.jpg 250w, https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hexagon-sphere-imploding-728-150x88.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through reams of time, stories written.<br \/>\nWorlds collide.<\/p>\n<p>Fortress of steel walls built.<br \/>\nThis is mine.<\/p>\n<p>Sovereign Free, what of me?<br \/>\nTightly bound,<br \/>\nNo freedom found,<br \/>\nWords confound.<\/p>\n<p>A child cries inside thick walls.<br \/>\nMuffled, muted murmurs now.<br \/>\nDesperation gives to death,<br \/>\nInnocence locked and kept.<\/p>\n<p>Bundled and ill equipped,<br \/>\nAscends the icy rift.<br \/>\nDare not he lose his grip,<br \/>\nFolly! he screams as he falls.<\/p>\n<p>Laid to rest in barren blizzards fields,<br \/>\nRemains haunted upon this day,<br \/>\nNo forgiveness or resolve.<br \/>\nLest he is to forever dissolve.<\/p>\n<p>Into endless nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>Hardened is the heart that beats,<br \/>\nUnknown that it has become the beast,<br \/>\nCries out to a world,<br \/>\nLook! what the I hath endured.<\/p>\n<p>Lest the man forget<br \/>\nThat he himself this day beget,<br \/>\nIn reliving of the event<br \/>\nThat has so rent his soul bereft.<\/p>\n<p>Loving Truly wraps her arms,<br \/>\nGently whispers of lost charms.<br \/>\nDays of warmth and laughter ring,<br \/>\nRemembrance of lighter things.<\/p>\n<p>Eternally She holds this flame.<br \/>\nSmall against the great dark plane,<br \/>\nPenetration into space,<br \/>\nThe voyager to parts unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Great Mystery is the key.<br \/>\nShe appears to laugh mercilessly.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing not from where he came,<br \/>\nStill he doth choose this game.<br \/>\nLabyrinth and maze is thus made.<br \/>\nTwists and turns but lead to dead ends.<\/p>\n<p>Deeper still will come home,<br \/>\nTo arrive one day to central point.<\/p>\n<p>Imploding in upon the self,<br \/>\nA stellar radiant one<br \/>\nOf carbon born.<br \/>\nDiamond light, polished stone.<\/p>\n<p>The Journey has thus begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through reams of time, stories written. Worlds collide. Fortress of steel walls built. This is mine. Sovereign Free, what of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-the-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}