{"id":83069,"date":"2016-11-21T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=83069"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:22:33","slug":"the-lightness-of-frailty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/11\/the-lightness-of-frailty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lightness of Frailty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/emanuel-garcia.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-81513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/emanuel-garcia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"emanuel-garcia\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking up, nothing<br \/>\nLike anything from here,<br \/>\nThe constellations were unnamed,<br \/>\nThe very curve of the heavens<br \/>\nHad no signature below,<br \/>\nSpaces led, irregular, to points,<br \/>\nTo sheets of dark, oblivious<\/p>\n<p>Why had I spent myself<br \/>\nSpinning my voice<br \/>\nOver your pale breasts,<br \/>\nShielding your eyes and mine<\/p>\n<p>How clear it has become<br \/>\nWith so much wandering:<br \/>\nThe lightness of frailty,<br \/>\nHow divine<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Emanuel E. Garcia is an American-born poet, novelist and physician who resides in New Zealand.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking up, nothing<br \/>\nLike anything from here,<br \/>\nThe constellations were unnamed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83069","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=83069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}