{"id":554,"date":"2013-06-30T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=554"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:33:10","slug":"10082012-a-tulip-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"10\/08\/2012 &#8211; A Tulip Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve been living for this for weeks.<br \/>\nLaying down at night in bed<br \/>\nwrapping your arms tightly<br \/>\nround your body<br \/>\nin anticipation.<br \/>\nSleep evades you.<br \/>\nProjected images leap<br \/>\nbefore your eyes.<br \/>\nTechnicolour bursts<br \/>\nflashing pictures<br \/>\ndisturb<br \/>\nand excite you.<br \/>\nYour heart beat races.<br \/>\nThe fragrance of lavender pervades the room<br \/>\n&#8211; even with your eyes tight shut.<br \/>\nburned on the inside of your eyelids<br \/>\nthe reds<br \/>\nand purples<br \/>\nclash<br \/>\nand compliment the perfume<br \/>\nof his gift.<br \/>\nRemembering the surprise you felt<br \/>\nwhen the doorbell rang.<br \/>\nThe crackling of the sellophane<br \/>\nas you clutched his flowers<br \/>\nagainst your breast.<br \/>\nFrom him?<br \/>\nAnd now<br \/>\nthe day at last has come.<br \/>\nTomorrow you will know for sure.<br \/>\nAll that waiting and anticipating<br \/>\nwondering and agitating<br \/>\nwill be no more.<br \/>\nYou open your eyes.<br \/>\nAll thoughts of sleep gone.<br \/>\nLook at the flowers by your bed.<br \/>\nSymbolic there,<br \/>\neach closed tulip like a prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve been living for this for weeks. Laying down at night in bed wrapping your arms tightly round your body in anticipation. Sleep evades you&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,28],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry","tag-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}