{"id":1393,"date":"2024-08-31T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:24:40","slug":"sleeping-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/31\/sleeping-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"757\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem231-757x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem231-757x1024.jpg 757w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem231-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem231-768x1039.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem231.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>With gratitude to a friend and a poet, Yana Kane, who asked this question &#8211; and inspired so many others.<\/em><br><br>White monolithic marble<br>slowly flows into<br>blue, where curling spires,<br>gradually exhausted,<br>fade into sky and vanish.<br>Tracing intricate movement,<br>my gaze, under its enchantment,<br>takes me away and out<br>where there is no sound,<br>colour or time &#8211; just spaces<br>still but containing movement.<br>Somewhere in these spires<br>there&#8217;s an enchanted princess<br>sleeping a hundred years<br>and one.<br><br>And then?<br>[question from the audience]<br><br>What happens<br>In year one hundred and two?<br><br>And then\u2026<br><br>When a miracle happens it gives you a choice &#8211;<br>it defies the prediction\u2019s imperious voice.<br><br>If the prince failed to show and give you a kiss<br>you can give happy ending a miss.<br><br>You can stay in your own unchanged universe<br>and ignore the fairy&#8217;s presumptuous curse.<br><br>You can stick middle finger to human endeavour &#8211;<br>Sleeping Beauty, enchanted forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With gratitude to a friend and a poet, Yana Kane, who asked this question &#8211; and inspired so many others. White monolithic marbleslowly flows intoblue, where curling spires,gradually exhausted,fade into sky and vanish.Tracing intricate movement,my gaze, under its enchantment,takes me away and outwhere there is no sound,colour or time &#8211; just spacesstill but containing movement.Somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,316,19,23,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}