opal lit with shifting clouds
\nof gloom, he was never optimistic,
\neven though he looked like
\nNureyev, had friends, health
\nand every opportunity –
\nI wanted to like him, but he
\nwas so formal it didn’t
\nseem like he had parents,
\nso brittle no one dared
\nto challenge his pearl shell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
opal lit with shifting clouds of gloom, he was never optimistic, even though he looked like Nureyev, had friends, health and every opportunity – I wanted to like him, but he was so formal it didn’t seem like he had parents, so brittle no one dared to challenge his pearl shell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-of-gems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}