{"id":581,"date":"2010-06-30T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=581"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:53:12","slug":"he-is-more-than-a-hero-by-sappho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/he-is-more-than-a-hero-by-sappho\/","title":{"rendered":"He is More Than a Hero by Sappho"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/599px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199 lazyload\" title=\"sappho\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/599px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"237\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/599px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/599px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/599px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 237px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 237\/237;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sappho the Poet<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">He is More Than a Hero<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Sappho<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is a god in my eyes&#8211;<br \/>\nthe man who is allowed<br \/>\nto sit beside you &#8212; he<\/p>\n<p>who listens intimately<br \/>\nto the sweet murmur of<br \/>\nyour voice, the enticing<\/p>\n<p>laughter that makes my own<br \/>\nheart beat fast. If I meet<br \/>\nyou suddenly, I can&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>speak &#8212; my tongue is broken;<br \/>\na thin flame runs under<br \/>\nmy skin; seeing nothing,<\/p>\n<p>hearing only my own ears<br \/>\ndrumming, I drip with sweat;<br \/>\ntrembling shakes my body<\/p>\n<p>and I turn paler than<br \/>\ndry grass. At such times<br \/>\ndeath isn&#8217;t far from me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sappho the Poet He is More Than a Hero by Sappho He is a god in my eyes&#8211; the man who is allowed to sit beside you &#8212; he who listens intimately to the sweet murmur of your voice, the enticing laughter that makes my own heart beat fast. If I meet you suddenly, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}