{"id":91,"date":"2011-11-18T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-10-09T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:54:11","slug":"shatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/18\/shatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>His breath rises in the night<\/div>\n<div>in puffs and tendrils\u00a0that swirl<\/div>\n<div>and then freeze to crystal,<\/div>\n<div>each word a microscopic snowflake,<\/div>\n<div>no two alike.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shivering, he stands as<\/div>\n<div>the familiar darkness gathers around him,<\/div>\n<div>and leaves lay prostrate at his feet.<\/div>\n<div>He has been called into the cold<\/div>\n<div>by a feeling both light and sad.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With a\u00a0keen and careful eye<\/div>\n<div>he can see a tear drop shatter<\/div>\n<div>four hundred miles away.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He watches as it falls.<\/div>\n<div>He knows that broken<\/div>\n<div>it is lighter than when whole,<\/div>\n<div>it being more than water and salt,<\/div>\n<div>for it bears the full weight<\/div>\n<div>of that\u00a0ceaceless organ,<\/div>\n<div>the half-pound that pushes<\/div>\n<div>and lives and loves.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The tear-spray evaporates.<\/div>\n<div>Taken into the night air<\/div>\n<div>it will freeze to crystal<\/div>\n<div>where\u00a0sometime soon,<\/div>\n<div>four hundred miles away,<\/div>\n<div>it will fall from a dark sky<\/div>\n<div>on another night when he feels called<\/div>\n<div>where it will melt in the palm of his hand.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His breath rises in the night in puffs and tendrils\u00a0that swirl and then freeze to crystal, each word a microscopic snowflake, no two alike. Shivering, he stands as the familiar darkness gathers around him, and leaves lay prostrate at his feet. He has been called into the cold by a feeling both light and sad. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/18\/shatter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shatter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniquewrites.mbouchard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}