{"id":388,"date":"2010-11-20T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=388"},"modified":"2010-11-20T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:18:37","slug":"w-s-merwin-just-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/388\/poems\/w-s-merwin-just-this\/","title":{"rendered":"W.S. Merwin &#8211; Just This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of the patience I have had<br \/>\nback in the dark before I remember<br \/>\nor knew it was night until the light came<br \/>\nall at once at the speed it was born to<br \/>\nwith all the time in the world to fly through<br \/>\nnot concerned about ever arriving<br \/>\nand then the gathering of the first stars<br \/>\nunhurried in their flowering spaces<br \/>\nand far into the story the planets<br \/>\ncooling slowly and the ages of rain<br \/>\nthen the seas starting to bear memory<br \/>\nthe gaze of the first cell at its waking<br \/>\nhow did this haste begin this little time<br \/>\nat any time this reading by lightning<br \/>\nscarcely a word this nothing this heaven<\/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 think of the patience I have had back in the dark before I remember or knew it was night until the light came all at once at the speed it was born to with all the time in the world to fly through not concerned about ever arriving and then the gathering of <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/388\/poems\/w-s-merwin-just-this\/' 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-388","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\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}