{"id":102737,"date":"2017-12-04T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T12:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=102737"},"modified":"2017-11-29T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:48:28","slug":"when-i-am-mute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/12\/when-i-am-mute\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Am Mute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I am mute,<\/p>\n<p>When even my ordinary words<\/p>\n<p>Have deserted me,<br \/>\nWhen beauty is beyond my ken<\/p>\n<p>I crank up the drawbridge<br \/>\nAnd pace the battlements<\/p>\n<p>I watch the skies for omens,<br \/>\nThe terrain for signs of approach<\/p>\n<p>My sentries were dismissed<br \/>\nLong ago:<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not attack I fear<\/p>\n<p>And in the waiting, waiting,<br \/>\nIn the cold night air,<br \/>\nAbove the perfume of the earth,<br \/>\nA dancing voice, at last<\/p>\n<p>At last my hand stirs \u2013 there,<br \/>\nMy pen!<br \/>\nWhen I am mute,<br \/>\nWhen even my ordinary words<br \/>\nHave deserted me,<br \/>\nWhen beauty is beyond my ken<br \/>\nI crank up the drawbridge<br \/>\nAnd pace the battlements<br \/>\nI watch the skies for omens,<br \/>\nThe terrain for signs of approach<br \/>\nMy sentries were dismissed<br \/>\nLong ago:<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not attack I fear<br \/>\nAnd in the waiting, waiting,<br \/>\nIn the cold night air,<br \/>\nAbove the perfume of the earth,<br \/>\nA dancing voice, at last<br \/>\nAt last my hand stirs \u2013 there,<br \/>\nMy pen!<br \/>\n________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/emanuel-Garcia-e1499591161992.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/emanuel-Garcia-e1499591161992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><em>Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia <\/em><em>is a member of the <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>,<\/em><em> an American poet, novelist and physician who now resides in New Zealand. He may be contacted at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:emanuelegarcia@gmail.com\"><em>emanuelegarcia@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I am mute,<br \/>\nWhen even my ordinary words<br \/>\nHave deserted me,<br \/>\nWhen beauty is beyond my ken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":95249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}