{"id":413,"date":"2016-01-31T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T23:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2016-02-01T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:03:37","slug":"for-angels-who-have-considered-flying-when-wings-are-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/31\/for-angels-who-have-considered-flying-when-wings-are-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"For Angels Who Dream of Flying When Wings Are Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For Angels Who Dream of Flying When Wings Are Not Enough<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the early morning light,<br \/>\na woman<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nwho once loved<br \/>\nwith both hands<br \/>\nwhile waiting to be born,<br \/>\nsits in a chair by the window,<br \/>\nfrom which she cannot see<br \/>\nthe Sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>She is watching a fly<br \/>\non the wall<br \/>\nand listening<br \/>\nto Blue Angels<br \/>\nflying just overhead.<\/p>\n<p>She is thinking about children<br \/>\nwith no wings,<br \/>\nwhose eyes were trained<br \/>\n(before they could see)<br \/>\nto fix themselves<br \/>\non flashing lights and false flags.<\/p>\n<p>She is dreaming<br \/>\nof a world<br \/>\nwhere accidents<br \/>\nof birth or time or place<br \/>\ndo not foretell dark fortunes<br \/>\nfor the pure of heart,<br \/>\nand young mothers<br \/>\nbare their breasts<br \/>\nin the warm summer rain,<br \/>\nwithout fear of soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>She is dreaming<br \/>\nof aeonian fields,<br \/>\nwhere innocence grows wild<br \/>\nand Love has no walls,<br \/>\nand freedom,<br \/>\nno longer a prisoner of war,<br \/>\nbreaks loose in a firestorm<br \/>\nof Imagination and Light.<\/p>\n<p>She is staring at the fly<br \/>\nflailing against the window,<br \/>\nand wondering if flies dream,<br \/>\nand whether she should open the window<br \/>\nto set this one free.<\/p>\n<p>She wonders (briefly),<br \/>\nas it falls to the floor,<br \/>\nif flies can die of disappointment,<br \/>\nand what might have been<br \/>\nhad she opened the window<br \/>\na minute sooner.<\/p>\n<p>She wonders<br \/>\nif it is too late<br \/>\nto look out<br \/>\nand see the Sky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Angels Who Dream of Flying When Wings Are Not Enough In the early morning light, a woman who once loved with both hands while waiting to be born, sits in a chair by the window, from which she cannot see the Sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}