{"id":706,"date":"2017-08-15T09:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:16:40","slug":"yeats-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Yeats&#8217; Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had I the fabric of the night,<\/p>\n<p>entwined with the constellation&#8217;s stars,<\/p>\n<p>the black and the purple and the grey night,<\/p>\n<p>of crabs and dogs and belts of stars;<\/p>\n<p>I would lay that cloth on the grass:<\/p>\n<p>so as we could lay on it together;<\/p>\n<p>but now we do not lay on just grass:<\/p>\n<p>for now it is the universe, together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Yeats:<\/p>\n<p><em>Had I the heaven&#8217;s embroidered cloths,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Enwrought with golden and silver light,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The blue and the dim and the dark cloths <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Of night and light and the half-light;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I would spread the cloths under your feet:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I, being poor, have only my dreams;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have spread my dreams under your feet;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had I the fabric of the night, entwined with the constellation&#8217;s stars, the black and the purple and the grey night, of crabs and dogs and belts of stars; I would lay that cloth on the grass: so as we could lay on it together; but now we do not lay on just grass: for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}