{"id":1219,"date":"2016-03-11T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:10:30","slug":"wislawa-szymborska-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1219\/poems\/wislawa-szymborska-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wislawa Szymborska: Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island where all becomes clear.<\/p>\n<p>Solid ground beneath your feet.<\/p>\n<p>The only roads are those that offer access.<\/p>\n<p>Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs.<\/p>\n<p>The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here<br \/>\nwith branches disentangled since time immemorial.<\/p>\n<p>The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple,<br \/>\nsprouts by the spring called Now I Get It.<\/p>\n<p>The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista:<br \/>\nthe Valley of Obviously.<\/p>\n<p>If any doubts arise, the wind dispels them instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Echoes stir unsummoned<br \/>\nand eagerly explain all the secrets of the worlds.<\/p>\n<p>On the right a cave where Meaning lies.<\/p>\n<p>On the left the Lake of Deep Conviction.<br \/>\nTruth breaks from the bottom and bobs to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Unshakable Confidence towers over the valley.<br \/>\nIts peak offers an excellent view of the Essence of Things.<\/p>\n<p>For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,<br \/>\nand the faint footprints scattered on its beaches<br \/>\nturn without exception to the sea.<\/p>\n<p>As if all you can do here is leave<br \/>\nand plunge, never to return, into the depths.<\/p>\n<p>Into unfathomable life.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island where all becomes clear. Solid ground beneath your feet. The only roads are those that offer access. Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs. The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here with branches disentangled since time immemorial. The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple, sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It. <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1219\/poems\/wislawa-szymborska-utopia\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-wtf-do-we-really-know","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}