{"id":10854,"date":"2022-07-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2022-07-17T14:57:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:57:25","slug":"sword-of-dreams-shield-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10854","title":{"rendered":"Sword of Dreams, Shield of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sophie_Gengembre_Anderson_-_Its_Touch_and_Go_to_Laugh_or_No.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sophie_Gengembre_Anderson_-_Its_Touch_and_Go_to_Laugh_or_No.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10855\" width=\"575\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sophie_Gengembre_Anderson_-_Its_Touch_and_Go_to_Laugh_or_No.jpg 568w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sophie_Gengembre_Anderson_-_Its_Touch_and_Go_to_Laugh_or_No-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>It&#8217;s Touch and Go to Laugh or No, by Sophie Gengembre Anderson, circa 1857<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lynne Sargent<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nDo you remember when we were witches\nwielding wands of wheat,\nmaking cedar talismans\nto protect against the fear of being caught\nin ding dong dash?\n\nWhen every tree was a portal\nand every villain could be defeated\nwith a quest, or a century\nand neither seemed quite so long.\n\nWhen love was in gemstones\nfound in rivers, presented to you\nwith your own hands, claimed\nby your own eyes.\n\nWhen our power was in powerlessness--\nin the fable of pretending\nit was the kind of thing that would be outgrown.\n\n<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynne Sargent Do you remember when we were witches wielding wands of wheat, making cedar talismans to protect against the fear of being caught in ding dong dash? When every tree was a portal and every villain could be defeated with a quest, or a century and neither seemed quite so long. When love was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10856,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions\/10856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}