{"id":1565,"date":"2018-02-01T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2018-02-01T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:28:26","slug":"mary-oliver-the-summer-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2018\/1565\/poems\/mary-oliver-the-summer-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Oliver: The Summer Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who made the world?<br \/>\nWho made the swan, and the black bear?<br \/>\nWho made the grasshopper?<br \/>\nThis grasshopper, I mean-<br \/>\nthe one who has flung herself out of the grass,<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-<br \/>\nwho is gazing around with her enormous 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?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; from\u00a0<em>New and Selected Poems<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51I1lm2MX9L._SX307_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" \/><\/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>Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2018\/1565\/poems\/mary-oliver-the-summer-day\/' 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":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","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\/1565","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=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}