{"id":9942,"date":"2014-07-03T23:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T23:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/07\/03\/whatladybird-the-first-time-i-say-i-love-you\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T23:51:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T23:51:43","slug":"whatladybird-the-first-time-i-say-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/07\/03\/whatladybird-the-first-time-i-say-i-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/whatladybird.tumblr.com\/post\/44013728148\/the-first-time-i-say-i-love-you-your-face\">whatladybird<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first time I say <em>I love you<\/em>, your face<br \/> crumbles. You look at me<br \/>the way man stares in terror <br \/>at the stars\u00a0and the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You grasp your head, fist<br \/> your hair, hiss, whisper <em>why me<br \/> why me I am weak I am<br \/> dirt I am dust I am<br \/> nothing\u2014<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Why you? Because<br \/> the earth is made of dust<br \/> and dirt and you are as<br \/> essential to me as earth<br \/> is to sky; you give me something<br \/> to set my sun against.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The dirt and the dust are not<br \/> weak. I could build a house<br \/> out of you; y<\/span>ou are the roof<br \/>when I rain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whatladybird: The first time I say I love you, your face crumbles. You look at methe way man stares in terror at the stars\u00a0and the sea. You grasp your head, fist your hair, hiss, whisper why me why me I am weak I am dirt I am dust I am nothing\u2014 Why you? Because the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/07\/03\/whatladybird-the-first-time-i-say-i-love-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1077,1174],"class_list":["post-9942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meandyou","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}