{"id":403,"date":"2004-05-26T23:55:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=403"},"modified":"2004-05-26T23:55:01","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T11:55:01","slug":"mary-oliverthe-summer-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/403","title":{"rendered":"Mary Oliver\/The Summer Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Adbusters #45 <small>(ALL READ ADBUSTERS)<\/small>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWho made the world?<br \/>\nWho made the swan, and the black bear?<br \/>\nWho made the grasshopper?<br \/>\nThis grasshopper, I mean &#8212;<br \/>\nthe one who is eating sugar out of my hand,<br \/>\nwho is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down &#8212;<br \/>\nwho is gazing around with her enourmous and complicated eyes.<br \/>\nNow she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.<br \/>\nNow she snaps her wings open, and floats away.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know exactly what a prayer is.<br \/>\nI do know how to pay attention, how to fall down<br \/>\ninto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,<br \/>\nhow to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,<br \/>\nwhich is what I have been doing all day.<br \/>\nTell me, what else should I have done?<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t everything die at last, and too soon?<br \/>\nTell me, what is it you plan to do<br \/>\nwith your one wild and precious life?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Adbusters #45 (ALL READ ADBUSTERS): Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean &#8212; the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down &#8212; who is gazing around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}