{"id":8139,"date":"2014-12-22T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:14:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T01:14:29","slug":"late-night-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/late-night-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/late-sonnet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8603 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/late-sonnet-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"late sonnet\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/late-sonnet-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/late-sonnet-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/late-sonnet.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of what is nothing made but a bed of wild<br \/>\nAnd idle flowers? The fractal petal bent<br \/>\nAround the cusp of the crown of the god-child<br \/>\nSwelling its red bloom from the carcass, spent<br \/>\nThe years in its proclamation ebbing<br \/>\nthe tide in blackness, spewed \u00a0roaring and naked<br \/>\nto wash ashore from stars forgotten, dwelling<br \/>\nin the wet sand a fortnight \u00a0to awaken<br \/>\nas a god-child and king, long dead in great despair<br \/>\nfor; of what is a bed of wild flowers made<br \/>\nif not of nothing and the godhead inferred<br \/>\nfrom the fractal malady of red blooming<br \/>\nand in its blooming then becoming withered,<br \/>\nstillborn time and our nothing ever roaming.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Yamil Maldonado P\u00e8rez was born in Puerto Rico, where he currently resides. He studies in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus where he majors in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. His main interest lies in the processes that underlie the evolution of mythology, Christianity in particular.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of what is nothing made but a bed of wild<br \/>\nAnd idle flowers? The fractal petal bent<br \/>\nAround the cusp of the crown of the god-child<br \/>\nSwelling its red bloom from the carcass, spent<br \/>\nThe years in its proclamation ebbing<br \/>\nthe tide in blackness, spewed  roaring and naked<br \/>\nto wash ashore from stars forgotten, dwelling<br \/>\nin the wet sand a fortnight  to awaken<br \/>\nas a god-child and king, long dead in great despair<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p22yCp-27h\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":8603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199,217,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}