{"id":1345,"date":"2016-09-22T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:59:55","slug":"don-paterson-a-vow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1345\/poems\/don-paterson-a-vow\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Paterson: A Vow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was ruined by Love, I took a vow<br \/>\nthat if I love again, I&#8217;d love the less;<br \/>\nso when I spoke love, spoke it to excess,<br \/>\nas love will make its mirror anyhow.<br \/>\nBut I talk to myself, and late one day<br \/>\nLove heard me crowing of my secret share<br \/>\nand taxed me all the false love I&#8217;d declared.<\/p>\n<p>Now I feel nothing but her stream away<br \/>\nthe way she does, dead slow and fast as light<br \/>\nlike a galaxy that leaves behind one spark<br \/>\ntoo low and dull to catch her silent drift;<br \/>\nthough somewhere out there in my turning dark<br \/>\nthey know each sunrise falling like a lift<br \/>\nand the white curve of her arm gone from the night.<\/p>\n<p>-from <em>40 Sonnets<\/em><\/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>When I was ruined by Love, I took a vow that if I love again, I&#8217;d love the less; so when I spoke love, spoke it to excess, as love will make its mirror anyhow. But I talk to myself, and late one day Love heard me crowing of my secret share and taxed me <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1345\/poems\/don-paterson-a-vow\/' 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":[318],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-love-lost","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\/1345","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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}