{"id":21545,"date":"2026-07-13T00:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=21545"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:45:52","slug":"you-wake-and-the-candles-are-lit-as-if-by-themselves-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/13\/you-wake-and-the-candles-are-lit-as-if-by-themselves-3\/","title":{"rendered":"You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"stars<\/a>
stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"sending<\/a>
sending up warm bouquets of air.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Even<\/a>
Even this late the bones of the body shine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"and<\/a>
and tomorrow\u2019s dust flares into breath.\u2014Mark Strand<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DSCF9916.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21550,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions\/21550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}