{"id":651,"date":"2011-05-15T18:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=651"},"modified":"2011-05-18T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:42:20","slug":"the-aching-eyes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=651","title":{"rendered":"The Aching Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"25\" data=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/aching-eyes\/r:1;t:100\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/aching-eyes\/r:1;t:100\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful strings and piano chords support a\u00a0poem I wrote after the\u00a0tragic death\u00a0of a little boy I taught some years back .<\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"b\"><strong>Jordy&#8217;s balloons<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>after the funeral<br \/>\noutside to inevitable<br \/>\nsun<\/p>\n<p>watching his eight year old mates release purple\/<br \/>\nwhite balloons shrinking into a perfect blue sky<\/p>\n<p>a week&#8217;s<br \/>\ngrieving<\/p>\n<p><span>spent<\/span><\/p>\n<p>relieved children smiling laughing faces upturned sunflowers seeking<br \/>\nlight warmth celebrating his life intent eyes on diminishing orbs<\/p>\n<p>but on<br \/>\nfear-engraved<br \/>\nfaces<\/p>\n<p>the aching eyes of every parent on their own<br \/>\nchild seeing them disappear in an instant<\/p>\n<p>like balloons.<\/p>\n<p>from\u00a0<em>micromacro<\/em>, 2006 \u00a9 rob walker.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Benjamin Orth from Hessen, Germany and Onlymeith the International Man of Mystery (aka\u00a0Carlos Clemente from Madrid, Spain) for the samples and mixing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful strings and piano chords support a\u00a0poem I wrote after the\u00a0tragic death\u00a0of a little boy I taught some years back . Jordy&#8217;s balloons after the funeral outside to inevitable sun watching his eight year old mates release purple\/ white balloons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions\/675"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}