{"id":9483,"date":"2015-07-06T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=9483"},"modified":"2015-07-16T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:07:28","slug":"dialogue-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/dialogue-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9484\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dialogue-poem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dialogue-poem-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit: Rachel Shannon\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dialogue-poem-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dialogue-poem-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dialogue-poem.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Rachel Shannon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This used to be the place<\/p>\n<p>you would take me when<\/p>\n<p>life seemed small<\/p>\n<p>Life always seemed better<\/p>\n<p>with you in it, you were an<\/p>\n<p>angel who filled the earth<\/p>\n<p>I was no angel; there were plenty<\/p>\n<p>of sullen moments, but your memory<\/p>\n<p>slides them aside, replaces them<\/p>\n<p>with golden orb images of me<\/p>\n<p>When I dream of you, I always<\/p>\n<p>dream of you as an infant,<\/p>\n<p>you are never a grown man<\/p>\n<p>Yet here I am an adult figure<\/p>\n<p>stretching his legs, a splash of gray<\/p>\n<p>here and there, yet you do not see me<\/p>\n<p>I see you, but that is the miracle<\/p>\n<p>and virtue of my memory;<\/p>\n<p>it floods with forgiveness, looks<\/p>\n<p>past reason, and is resolute.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. \u00a0His writing has appeared in a number of journal publications, including Eye On Life Magazine, The Commonline Journal, and The Literary Yard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This used to be the place<\/p>\n<p>you would take me when<\/p>\n<p>life seemed small<\/p>\n<p>            Life always seemed better<\/p>\n<p>            with you in it, you were an<\/p>\n<p>            angel who filled the earth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/dialogue-poem\/\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":9484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483"}],"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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9505,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions\/9505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}