{"id":88,"date":"2006-05-22T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T04:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-10-11T06:49:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T14:49:46","slug":"we-are-the-sum-of-our-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"We are the sum of our memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blogSubject\"><em>Current mood: Far Away \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nI found an origami rose.<br \/>\nAnd because it was so beautiful,<br \/>\nI lifted it close to my lips to smell it.<br \/>\nAnd I saw that there was writing on it.<br \/>\nAnd I began to unfold it and read it.<br \/>\nAnd as it unfolded it became a book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Who are we?<br \/>\nWe are the sum of our memories.<br \/>\nHow do we share our memories?<br \/>\nThrough the sound of her voice?<br \/>\nThrough the touch of her skin as we make new memories?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I went today and walked alone in her memories<br \/>\nAnd alone I could not understand them.<br \/>\nThe places where she walked and laughed and lived,<br \/>\noffered to me only the faintest whisper of her memories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I long for her. To know who she truly is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As I read the pages fall away,<br \/>\nlike rose petals.<br \/>\nBut for each page I read, a new one is written.<br \/>\nAnd with time,<br \/>\nthe reader and the story will become one.<br \/>\nAnd the book will never have to end.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current mood: Far Away I found an origami rose. And because it was so beautiful, I lifted it close to my lips to smell it. And I saw that there was writing on it. And I began to unfold it and read it. And as it unfolded it became a book. Who are we? We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}