{"id":911,"date":"2015-03-23T06:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2015-03-22T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T13:36:12","slug":"invocation-by-joshua-gage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Invocation, by Joshua Gage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_913\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/576px-Cetonia-aurata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/576px-Cetonia-aurata-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Cetonia-aurata&quot; by I, Chrumps. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cetonia-aurata.jpg#\/media\/File:Cetonia-aurata.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/576px-Cetonia-aurata-300x250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/576px-Cetonia-aurata.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Cetonia-aurata&#8221; by I, Chrumps. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cetonia-aurata.jpg#\/media\/File:Cetonia-aurata.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessed is the day. Blessed is the bitterness<br \/>\nof burning leaves. Blessed are the lonely<br \/>\nnotes of iridescent insects.<\/p>\n<p>Do not mind the crow, his fierce bark.<br \/>\nHe will guide us through the ghosts.<br \/>\nHe is the patron of the lost and potsherd.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed is the desert. Blessed are the blind<br \/>\ntheir fingertips touching warm fruit.<br \/>\nBlessed are the scarlet blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>Bees thrum in and out, trembling<br \/>\nthe flowers. They are scentless, dusty,<br \/>\nlike the eyes of the prophesied dead.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed is the dawn scattering its flushed seeds.<br \/>\nBlessed is the light that cups our breasts.<br \/>\nBlessed is the milk.<\/p>\n<p>The morning hours will evaporate<br \/>\nthese spirits like frost, will shed their skin<br \/>\nuntil there is only hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed are the forsaken, the hollows<br \/>\nwhere their hearts have seized.<br \/>\nBlessed are the stones which sow this sad earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Blessed is the day. Blessed is the bitterness of burning leaves. Blessed are the lonely notes of iridescent insects. Do not mind the crow, his fierce bark. He will guide us through the ghosts. He is the patron of the lost and potsherd. Blessed is the desert. Blessed are the blind their fingertips touching [&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-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}