{"id":3040,"date":"2013-03-27T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:56:07","slug":"im-ignoring-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/03\/27\/im-ignoring-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m ignoring the title."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which is A Christmas Tree, which I think somehow cheapens the whole thing by making it some trite, pallid God metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>A Christmas Tree<br \/>by William Burford<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Star,<br \/>if you are<br \/>A love compassionate,<br \/>You will walk with us this year.<br \/>We face a glacial distance, who are here<br \/>Huddld<br \/>At your feet.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>I like the personification of the astronomical body, the begging of warmth across the chill of space, the abject genuflection of the insignificant people [who are so insignificant that they can&#8217;t buy another vowel for &quot;Huddld&quot;]. It&#8217;s a desperate and rather hopeless plea.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1490895.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1490895.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1490895.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which is A Christmas Tree, which I think somehow cheapens the whole thing by making it some trite, pallid God metaphor. A Christmas Treeby William Burford Star,if you areA love compassionate,You will walk with us this year.We face a glacial distance, who are hereHuddldAt your feet. I like the personification of the astronomical body, the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/03\/27\/im-ignoring-the-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m ignoring the title.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[731],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}