{"id":4978,"date":"2015-05-31T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T07:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T07:58:01","slug":"the-muse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4978","title":{"rendered":"The Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a title=\"Muza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Muza.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4979\" alt=\"Muza\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Muza-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Muza-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Muza-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The Muse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Far ahead of me, I see my Muse<\/p>\n<p>dressed plainly in a tan skirt<\/p>\n<p>and a white blouse, She is waving<\/p>\n<p>a bright yellow scarf in her left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Her right hand she holds open, palm<\/p>\n<p>facing me, as if she were halting something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Follow after, Poet&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hear her words as speech arising\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>in the back of my mind . . . I read my poem<\/p>\n<p>out loud. Then I read my silent heart.<\/p>\n<p>Both are replete with what I have loved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Brick<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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-4978","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\/4978","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=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}