{"id":560,"date":"2018-04-16T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=560"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:09","slug":"through-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2018\/04\/16\/through-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"THROUGH THE AGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by TYLYN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a woman, confident in a body that is at once pale as light, and dark as the night,<br \/>\nShe twirls and twirls, the hem of a star-patterned dress floating into the air,<br \/>\nDipping in and out of sight within the background of a lovely home, stained black and white.<br \/>\nAll of a sudden, she begins to stumble in her beautiful celebration, the world having gone grey,<br \/>\nThough now far clearer. Still, there remains a certain amount of \u2026 mystery,<br \/>\nBehind the ancestry of one whose features are at once delicate, yet determined.<br \/>\nHer wide eyes give nothing away in the grayscale. If that stumble would have deterred another,<br \/>\nShe refused to have any of it. The lady regained her senses with a step back, like a feather<br \/>\nOnto a still, crystal pond, and with a gentle grasp onto the hem of that flowery skirt,<br \/>\nWhose petals danced and turned with each swish of the silky dress.<br \/>\nShe bowed her head into the tone faded with a hint of chocolate, just enough to tingle the senses.<br \/>\nThis maiden\u2019s curtsy would command the looks of her stunned audience, With her heels<br \/>\nKnocking against a wooden floor that was may not ever rotten with age, but a suave appeal.<br \/>\nHer head low, those locks of dark hair on her head would wave forward and over shoulders<br \/>\nThat carried far, far more than she would, or could, even let on. And when she would rise up,<br \/>\nOnce her gaze might consume the beings of a dumbfounded, doubtful group of onlookers,<br \/>\nThe world would be filled with colors, the melanin of her skin making her gold, accentuated<br \/>\nBy lips painted a dark, enticing ruby. Spreading her arms out, they would all see, those wings<br \/>\nWith which she shall fly, shattering a blue sky into dust, going into a state that<br \/>\nWe may never live to experience, losing this inspiration, this revival, of grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by TYLYN<\/p>\n<p>There is a woman, confident in a body that is at once pale as light, and dark as the night,<br \/> She twirls and twirls, the hem of a star-patterned dress floating into the air,<br \/> Dipping in and out of sight within the background of a lovely home, stained black and white.<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}