{"id":2049,"date":"2012-10-27T20:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T01:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2012-10-27T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T01:20:25","slug":"5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"5&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North-north-west<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forty fathoms in,<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m still<br \/>\nwaiting for something<br \/>\nto validate my life<br \/>\nlike Castiel praying<br \/>\nto an empty amulet<br \/>\nlooking for lost gods<br \/>\nin dime story baubles<br \/>\nreflections in muddy puddles,<br \/>\nburned toast and brickwork<\/p>\n<p>Every day I make<br \/>\nmy New Year&#8217;s resolutions<br \/>\nmy vow to break the silence<br \/>\nI breathe in mountains &#038; oceans<br \/>\nthrow my arms open<br \/>\nhoping the wind will catch me<\/p>\n<p>Ever day I hear<br \/>\nsymphonies written by ghosts<br \/>\nsongs by unreachable strangers<\/p>\n<p>Everything that touches my soul<br \/>\ndissolves in air and whispers<br \/>\nfades like dreams on waking<br \/>\nSometimes cupped hands<br \/>\ncapture just enough<br \/>\nfor a single sip<br \/>\na fleeting taste, a cruel<br \/>\nteaser (the main feature never<br \/>\nlives up to the previews)<\/p>\n<p>If only I could find<br \/>\nthe right sledgehammer<br \/>\naxe, blowtorch, cannon<br \/>\nto blow these walls down<br \/>\nI might find what I&#8217;m looking for<br \/>\nin the rubble and the ruin<br \/>\na new life out of chaos<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; T.H. (Patchwork Journal)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North-north-west Forty fathoms in, and I&#8217;m still waiting for something to validate my life like Castiel praying to an empty amulet looking for lost gods in dime story baubles reflections in muddy puddles, burned toast and brickwork Every day I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[810,807,808,818,764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}