{"id":9274,"date":"2022-02-14T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9274"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:13:01","slug":"memory-of-venice-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9274","title":{"rendered":"Memory of Venice\/Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this day, a painting, and a poem by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/philip-booth\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/philip-booth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philip Booth.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MemoryVenice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MemoryVenice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MemoryVenice.jpg 850w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MemoryVenice-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MemoryVenice-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nightsong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beside you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>lying down at dark,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>my waking fits your sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your turning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>flares the slow-banked fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>between our mingled feet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>curved close and warm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>against the nape of love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>held there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who holds your dreaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shape, I match my breathing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to your breath;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and sightless, keep my hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on your heart\u2019s breast, keep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>nightwatch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on your sleep to prove<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there is no dark, nor death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Philip Booth<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this day, a painting, and a poem by Philip Booth. Nightsong Beside you, lying down at dark, my waking fits your sleep. Your turning flares the slow-banked fire between our mingled feet, and there, curved close and warm against the nape of love, held there, who holds your dreaming shape, I match my breathing<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9274\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[23,84,78,19,156,3],"class_list":["post-9274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-festival","tag-italy","tag-love","tag-poem","tag-valentine","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}