{"id":16,"date":"2005-01-03T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T04:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16"},"modified":"2005-01-03T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T04:57:05","slug":"wendell-berry-openings-the-peace-of-wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Wendell Berry, Openings: The Peace of Wild Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When despair for the world grows in me<br \/>\nand I wake in the night at the least sound<br \/>\nin fear of what may life and my children\u2019s lives may be,<br \/>\nI go and lie down where the wood drake<br \/>\nrests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.<br \/>\nI come into the peace of wild things<br \/>\nwho do not tax their lives with forethought<br \/>\nof grief. I come into the presence of still water.<br \/>\nAnd I feel above me the day-blind stars<br \/>\nwaiting with their light. For a time<br \/>\nI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what may life and my children\u2019s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}