{"id":240,"date":"2020-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/17\/growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The moonlight seeped in through the window, <br \/>\nshining bright white, like winter&#8217;s first snow<br \/>\nflooding the room with tentative grace.<br \/>\nDo you remember the paper crane<br \/>\ntied with a red thread to the wind chime?<br \/>\nIt danced in sync with the whistling wind,<br \/>\nthrowing dark shadows on whitewashed walls.<br \/>\nSycamore swings swayed in the back yard<br \/>\nand wandering footfalls took me there.<br \/>\nAlternate endings smothered my mind<br \/>\nlike tendrils which prey, curl and crawl up. <br \/>\nIf I had asked you to, would you have<br \/>\nturned back from the fork in these dirt roads<br \/>\nor waited beneath the cedar boughs? <br \/>\nThe answers settled like hidden roots<br \/>\nburied deep and a solid sixth sense. <br \/>\nA sudden wind freed the dancing crane-<br \/>\nyour parting gift of plain white paper. <br \/>\nHow it flew with the moon on its wings!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moonlight seeped in through the window,   shining bright white, like winter&#8217;s first snow  flooding the room with tentative grace.  Do you remember the paper crane  tied with a red thread to the wind chime?  It danced in sync with the whistling wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}