{"id":2674,"date":"2016-09-27T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=2674"},"modified":"2017-02-22T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T19:43:46","slug":"menses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/writing\/poetry\/menses\/","title":{"rendered":"Menses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bleed, and from my body<br \/>\nflows a stream<br \/>\nuniting me with all that\u2019s<br \/>\nfruitful in the earth.<\/p>\n<p>I swell, and celebrate<br \/>\nthe ripening corn, the apple<br \/>\nand the yeast which multiplies<br \/>\nthe cells, sustaining life.<\/p>\n<p>I feel<br \/>\nthe rhythm of the tides<br \/>\nwhich rise and fall and draw<br \/>\nall waters to the sea.<\/p>\n<p>And deep within my body<br \/>\na lake reflects the glow that lights the night,<br \/>\nmirroring the moon,<br \/>\npure centre of the rhythm that I share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bleed, and from my body flows a stream uniting me with all that\u2019s fruitful in the earth. I swell, and celebrate the ripening corn, the apple and the yeast which multiplies the cells, sustaining life. I feel the rhythm of the tides which rise and fall and draw all&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/writing\/poetry\/menses\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Menses<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1982,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2674","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}