{"id":3040,"date":"2014-08-14T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:18:52","slug":"floaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2014\/08\/floaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Floaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">I saw a beautiful floating thing\n rock\u2013leaf\u2013floaty, hovering\n just beneath the surface of the pond.\nMy heart gazed;\n my romance\n always on\n \u201cIt is perhaps a piece of trash;\n  don\u2019t be open.\u201d\nI gazed\n sunken rock, gold leaf, floating submerged\nThen I saw it:\n a turtle\u2019s head poking out of the water\n breathing with the whole pond,\n breathing my breath,\n so cute and innocent\n at once my love was explained.\nOne turtle in the whole pond\n breathing in air for the whole pond,\n poking its head out to connect\n the underneath with the forest.\nFloating in earnest little grace\n and so picturesque\nI grabbed and shook my phone.\n  \u201cYou are going to miss him.\n   He will go should you take\n    his picture.\u201d\nI took it.\n He was not in it,\n  just a pond and woods\n   so picturesque if there would\n    be a little turtle in the middle of it.\nI gazed\n and saw the turtle unchanged\n and as I delighted\n  he ducked his head down;\n a ring emanated over the pond\n and a little bloop where his head had been\n \u2014 gone.\nI looked back at the picture.\n He was there; his head\n one little speck.\n The sublime floating gold\n  unseen\n hidden by the pond\u2019s reflection\n  of the sky.\n\nI talked with some people there;\n they had seen the turtle, too.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a beautiful floating thing rock\u2013leaf\u2013floaty, hovering just beneath the surface of the pond. My heart gazed; my romance always on \u201cIt is perhaps a piece of trash; don\u2019t be open.\u201d I gazed sunken rock, gold leaf, floating submerged Then I saw it: a turtle\u2019s head poking out of the water breathing with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-dragonfly-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}