I\u2019ve seen the striving Gatsby, Cyrano,
Each reaching forth to feed his hungry heart,
Though in the end such longing brought them woe,
Though in the end it tore their worlds apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I too was drawn unto a flower\u2019s scent
A fair, adorable, yet subtle power;
I too reached out; I too was sorely rent,
But her spell broke before my final hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One day I paid her visit under fine sky,
Her fragrance lifted me, yet tense I stayed.
A word I spoke; she let me fall\u2014to die:
For but a quiver of my lips, betrayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From out the earth I rose: my work was done.
Then swift I turned, my face lit by the Son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHe must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…\u201d<\/p>\n
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37,8,26,59],"class_list":["post-52567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-culture","tag-faith","tag-nature","tag-relationships"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52578,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52567\/revisions\/52578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}