{"id":312,"date":"2008-10-20T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-10-20T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:32:29","slug":"daughter-of-orion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/312","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of Orion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><strong>Daughter of Orion<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Sometimes, being alone is a choice. I've always been conflicted about choosing to be more social. This is a song to the girl I might have been, which I occasionally wish I still was.<\/p>\n<p>Tune: Original<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She sits alone, she walks alone,<br \/>\nShe'll never notice me and you.<br \/>\nAt night, she'll wait for hours, still,<br \/>\nIn grasses wet with dew.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDon't look into her eyes; they shine<br \/>\nWith fires dead a million years.<br \/>\nWith eyes this bright and dead, no wonder<br \/>\nShe won't shed a tear.<\/p>\n<p>Child of starry night-skies, lonely and so proud,<br \/>\nThe silence wraps around you like luminescent shroud.<br \/>\nDaughter of Orion, arrogant and haught,<br \/>\nPerhaps the stars will want what men do not.<\/p>\n<p>The sky awaits her; thus she swears<br \/>\nThough I have seen the heavens move<br \/>\nAnd while she's sure they go for her<br \/>\nIt's something she can't prove,<\/p>\n<p>And in her heart of hearts, she knows<br \/>\nA painful truth to bear;<br \/>\nShe gave her heart to love the stars.<br \/>\nThe stars will never care.<\/p>\n<p>Child of starry night-skies, sitting cold and still.<br \/>\nI weep for her sake, although the night-skies never will.<br \/>\nDaughter of Orion, barren and bereft &#8211;<br \/>\nIf you don't have the stars, what else is left?<\/p>\n<p>She feels it yawning in her chest,<br \/>\nA faint and painless lack;<br \/>\nIt's easiest to love those things<br \/>\nThat will not love you back.<\/p>\n<p>She's light-years far from humans,<br \/>\nThough why I cannot see.<br \/>\nShe'll watch the sky for hours,<br \/>\nBut she's not once looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>Child of starry night-skies, put away your telescope:<br \/>\nI'm lost adrift around you. Pull me in. You're my last hope.<br \/>\nDaughter of Orion, beautiful and far,<br \/>\nMust you be as distant as the stars? <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of Orion Sometimes, being alone is a choice. I've always been conflicted about choosing to be more social. This is a song to the girl I might have been, which I occasionally wish I still was. Tune: Original She sits alone, she walks alone, She'll never notice me and you. At night, she'll wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}