{"id":16328,"date":"2016-12-01T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2017-01-01T06:14:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T12:14:30","slug":"16328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=16328","title":{"rendered":"Random Thread: December 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Moon-Over-Ocean-400w.jpg\" alt=\"Moonlit ocean\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lie back, daughter, let your head<br \/>\nbe tipped back in the cup of my hand.<br \/>\nGently, and I will hold you. Spread<br \/>\nyour arms wide, lie out on the stream<br \/>\nand look high at the gulls. A dead-<br \/>\nman&#8217;s-float is face down. You will dive<br \/>\nand swim soon enough where this tidewater<br \/>\nebbs to the sea. Daughter, believe<br \/>\nme, when you tire on the long thrash<br \/>\nto your island, lie up, and survive.<br \/>\nAs you float now, where I held you<br \/>\nand let go, remember when fear<br \/>\ncramps your heart what I told you:<br \/>\nlie gently and wide to the light-year<br \/>\nstars, lie back, and the sea will hold you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&#8220;First Lesson,&#8221; by Philip Booth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16328"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16375,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}