{"id":1121,"date":"2014-05-21T15:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:24:43","slug":"a-rose-for-andreas-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/a-rose-for-andreas-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"A rose for Andrea\u2019s daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/A-rose-for-Andrea-daughter.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1122\" title=\"A rose for Andrea's daughter\" src=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/A-rose-for-Andrea-daughter.jpeg\" alt=\"A rose for Andrea's daughter\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>A rose for Andrea&#8217;s daughter<\/h2>\n<p>I suppose baby souls fall back in line,<br \/>\nReshaped and recast to wake up elsewhere.<br \/>\nSo, dear Diona, as you wait in sky mists<br \/>\nFor the next soulcast, listen to this:<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a rainforest,<br \/>\nGiant trucks with ugly wheels<br \/>\nVomited out a thousand army boots.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->They dug up all: olden fairy paths,<br \/>\nAncestors\u2019 graves and bones,<br \/>\nSinewy veins of golden earth itself.<br \/>\nThey trampled on <em>lawan<\/em> and <em>nito<\/em> alike,<br \/>\nMother tree and just-sprouted seed<br \/>\nSuch as you and million others.<\/p>\n<p>But the shivering rainforest awakens again<br \/>\nCrying up a storm, as it always does.<br \/>\nSoon the rotten army boots are buried<br \/>\nIn angry torrents of monsoon bullets.<\/p>\n<p>Mother trees reclaim the land,<br \/>\nTheir myriad seeds sprouting again.<br \/>\nLike soft morning rain, a shower<br \/>\nOf souls float back down to bring<br \/>\nTheir long-grieving mothers<br \/>\nThe twinkling smile of a red, red rose.<\/p>\n<p>May 20, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose baby souls fall back in line,<br \/>\nReshaped and recast to wake up elsewhere.<br \/>\nSo Diona, as you wait in sky mist<br \/>\nFor the next soulcast, listen to this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,8],"tags":[38,246,247,245,209],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-2","category-personal","tag-children","tag-death","tag-grief","tag-mothers","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}