{"id":659,"date":"2007-06-12T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=659"},"modified":"2007-06-12T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T11:07:09","slug":"the-dance-and-death-of-the-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-dance-and-death-of-the-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dance and Death of the Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(.)<\/p>\n<p>what does not sustain destroys<\/p>\n<p>flowers do not last forever<\/p>\n<p>thus the painting or portraying<\/p>\n<p>is not the glory of the flower<\/p>\n<p>but the reminder thereof<\/p>\n<p>thus we dance while we may<\/p>\n<p>and when we may not is now<\/p>\n<p>is when we snatch the starving child<\/p>\n<p>from the vulture<\/p>\n<p>awaiting<\/p>\n<p>the death of one more flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(.) what does not sustain destroys flowers do not last forever thus the painting or portraying is not the glory of the flower but the reminder thereof thus we dance while we may and when we may not is now is when we snatch the starving child from the vulture awaiting the death of one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-dance-and-death-of-the-flower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dance and Death of the Flower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}