{"id":2917,"date":"2022-05-24T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2022-05-24T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:24:57","slug":"star-crossed-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2022\/05\/star-crossed-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-crossed Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #0099cc;font-size: small\"><strong>Image:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u00a9 ELLE<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Author<\/strong>: ELLE<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Oh, to be born a daffodil,<br>An emerging seed of sundust<br>Waking from a numbing sleep<br>Reaching, <em>slowly<\/em>, the promises of the surface<br>Gently crackling the thin iced reminiscence of a silent winter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The silky honey-coloured petals<br>Gracefully introducing the son of C\u00e9phise<br>To the distant sound of foreseen decay<br>For Narcissus\u2019 reflection can only last for so long<br>Under the sky of spring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Oh, to grow under the name of a rose,<br>Cursed symbol of serendipity;<br>Bound to hear the countless selfish soliloquies<br>Premises to dissatisfied infatuation.<br>Forced to see the solitude glowing in eyes that once knew love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Does dusk know that dawn exists?<br>For the rose surely is unaware of the adversity of winter<br>And the daffodil is ignorant of the pain of thorns<br>And yet, \u2013<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image:&nbsp;\u00a9 ELLE Author: ELLE Oh, to be born a daffodil,An emerging seed of sundustWaking from a numbing sleepReaching, slowly, the promises of the surfaceGently crackling the thin iced reminiscence of a silent winter. The silky honey-coloured petalsGracefully introducing the son of C\u00e9phiseTo the distant sound of foreseen decayFor Narcissus\u2019 reflection can only last for so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-2917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2022-spring","7":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}