{"id":3987,"date":"2014-02-20T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2014-02-20T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:39:42","slug":"longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3987","title":{"rendered":"Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"girl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/girl.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3992\" alt=\"girl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/girl-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/girl-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/girl-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Longing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A seagull dives and wheels along the shore,<br \/>Adjusts its wings in calm and measured flight.<br \/>Brief skiffs of rain paint shadows on the lake,<br \/>A boy holds fast his wild and frenzied kite.<\/p>\n<p>I long to leave this place; soar with the gull,<br \/> But something pulls me down and won&#8217;t let go.<br \/>A distant voice that speaks in ancient tongue,<br \/>Not yet, not yet, there&#8217;s more you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>I turn my face toward the coming storm,<br \/>Still my heart and count in measured beat.<br \/>Comb my trembling fingers through my hair,<br \/>Refuse to let my mind admit defeat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Amanda Edwards<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}