{"id":1623,"date":"2011-12-19T18:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T01:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2012-05-24T23:44:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T06:44:50","slug":"a-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/a-flower","title":{"rendered":"A Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Read in order: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/like-ivy\">Ivy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/a-butterfly\">A Butterfly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/a-flower\">A Flower<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/and-a-leaf\">And A Leaf<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A flower is all the world&#8217;s impossibility<br \/>\nShe is the great subduer of sleep<br \/>\nThe great one that overcomes<br \/>\nAnd opens simply to see<br \/>\nSimply to be free&#8230;<br \/>\nShe twists, she dances, her scent glides on every breeze!<br \/>\nShe is the exploding result of impossible dreams<\/p>\n<p>A flower is the outcome of ambition<br \/>\nA monument to will, unrelenting<br \/>\nShe knew not to stay still and realized her own being<br \/>\nEver so gently she is the one that glides between<br \/>\nThen and now, and never again,<br \/>\nNo place in particular&#8230;<br \/>\nThe complete disregard of when&#8217;s and where&#8217;s<br \/>\nThe face she bears is stubborn and proud<br \/>\nShe declares her colors quite loud!<\/p>\n<p>A flower is a secret finally told<br \/>\nEarth holds her like a whisper<br \/>\nWhen she&#8217;s realized, she finally withers<br \/>\nPerhaps forgotten, perhaps granted remembrance<br \/>\nAs a dedication to that sublime resemblance<br \/>\nWhich burns and illuminates every being&#8217;s heart<br \/>\nShe is the surmounted mark of divine art<br \/>\nThat overcame both light and dark<\/p>\n<p>A flower is like every dream<br \/>\nShe reaches for the sky, too stubborn to die<br \/>\nUnforgiving, her aspirations are too high<br \/>\nShe struggles from the ground<br \/>\nSurroundings crowd her out<br \/>\nThe world tries to drown her, tries to push her down<br \/>\n&#8220;Know your place!&#8221; So they say<br \/>\nThey teach her otherwise, beat her aside,<br \/>\nSchool her to hide her potential face, and abandon all her grace&#8230;<br \/>\nBut the only thing she knows,<br \/>\nIs her own promise of a brighter day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Read in order: Ivy, A Butterfly, A Flower, And A Leaf) A flower is all the world&#8217;s impossibility She is the great subduer of sleep The great one that overcomes And opens simply to see Simply to be free&#8230; She twists, she dances, her scent glides on every breeze! She is the exploding result of impossible dreams A flower is the outcome of ambition A monument to will, unrelenting She knew not to stay still and realized her own being Ever so gently she is the one that glides between Then and now, and never again, No place in particular&#8230;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}