{"id":445,"date":"2014-05-27T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2016-03-20T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T22:55:48","slug":"life-as-a-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Life as a Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rose is a Rose<br \/>\nA Flower, with Colour<br \/>\nAppealing in Smell<br \/>\nA Body Slim and Beautiful<br \/>\nTo what shall I call you &#8212; A Name?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ceciliav4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ceciliav4-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Ceciliav4\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ceciliav4-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ceciliav4-624x419.jpg 624w, https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ceciliav4.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But why so much time spent to be as a flower<br \/>\nPetals flourishing for such a short time.<br \/>\nHow long shall a blossom blossom?<br \/>\nA petal fall?<\/p>\n<p>Peering across an evening sky,<br \/>\nChifon and Blue,<br \/>\nI seek, but it answers not,<br \/>\nOr could it be because I rely only on the obvious senses?<\/p>\n<p>As Light Fades to Dark<br \/>\nAnxiety Quickens<br \/>\nMy Flower is Wilting<br \/>\nBut&#8230;That&#8217;s OK<\/p>\n<p><i>In Memory of:<br \/>\nCecilia Geraldine DeMuth<br \/>\nBorn in Louisville, Ky on January 9, 1942, Died May 27, 1994<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rose is a Rose A Flower, with Colour Appealing in Smell A Body Slim and Beautiful To what shall I call you &#8212; A Name? But why so much time spent to be as a flower Petals flourishing for such a short time. How long shall a blossom blossom? A petal fall? Peering across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}