{"id":29,"date":"2014-03-23T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-03-23T19:28:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:28:47","slug":"i-lie-in-wait-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/2014\/03\/23\/i-lie-in-wait-love\/","title":{"rendered":"I Lie in Wait, Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The desert sands burn<br \/>\nGrains burrow in every wrinkle in my skin<br \/>\nHot dust fills my lungs<br \/>\n<em>I should scream<\/em>, I think<br \/>\n<em>I am on fire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My lips open wide<br \/>\nLike the mouth of a cave<br \/>\n<em>Is that where you have been hiding?<\/em><br \/>\nMy lips open wide<br \/>\nBut all that falls out is your name<br \/>\nGently, softly, reverently<\/p>\n<p>My prince, they speak of your gardens<br \/>\nOf sweet fruits and cool shade<br \/>\nI imagine that the tears<br \/>\nThat trail down my cheeks<br \/>\nAre stray droplets from your gushing fountains<br \/>\nWhere we will someday spend our days<\/p>\n<p>Others eagerly seek my hand<br \/>\nThey promise glittering jewels and towers of gold<br \/>\nBut every beat of my heart calls for you<br \/>\nSave me, O Beloved<br \/>\nFind me in this wasteland<br \/>\nCarry me away in your arms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desert sands burn Grains burrow in every wrinkle in my skin Hot dust fills my lungs I should scream, I think I am on fire My lips open wide Like the mouth of a cave Is that where you have been hiding? My lips open wide But all that falls out is your name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nidanaushad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}