{"id":1676,"date":"2005-01-04T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T21:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4"},"modified":"2005-01-04T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T21:37:42","slug":"wild-geese-by-mary-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Wild Geese by Mary Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do not have to be good.<br \/>\nYou do not have to walk on your knees<br \/>\nfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.<br \/>\nYou only have to let the soft animal of your body<br \/>\nlove what it loves.<br \/>\nTell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the world goes on.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain<br \/>\nare moving across the landscapes,<br \/>\nover the prairies and the deep trees,<br \/>\nthe mountains and the rivers.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,<br \/>\nare heading home again.<br \/>\nWhoever you are, no matter how lonely,<br \/>\nthe world offers itself to your imagination,<br \/>\ncalls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting \u2014<br \/>\nover and over announcing your place<br \/>\nin the family of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. [&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\/1676"}],"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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}