{"id":235,"date":"2007-02-09T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2007-02-09T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T15:43:13","slug":"when-titles-belie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"When titles belie &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely Wendell Berry understands something I don&#8217;t but the title of this poem doesn&#8217;t seem to match the grim beauty of his words. Both, however, fit my mood.<\/p>\n<p>The Wish to Be Generous<\/p>\n<p>All that I serve will die, all my delights,<br \/>\nthe flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field,<br \/>\nthe silent lilies standing in the woods,<br \/>\nthe woods, the hill, the whole earth, all<br \/>\nwill burn in man&#8217;s evil, or dwindle<br \/>\nin its own age. Let the world bring on me<br \/>\nthe sleep of darkness without stars, so I may know<br \/>\nmy little light taken from me into the seed<br \/>\nof the beginning and the end, so I may bow<br \/>\nto mystery, and take my stand on the earth<br \/>\nlike a tree in a field, passing without haste<br \/>\nor regret toward what will be, my life<br \/>\na patient willing descent into the grass.<\/p>\n<p>~ Wendell Berry ~<\/p>\n<p>(The Collected Poems, 1957-1982)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely Wendell Berry understands something I don&#8217;t but the title of this poem doesn&#8217;t seem to match the grim beauty of his words. Both, however, fit my mood. The Wish to Be Generous All that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, the silent lilies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}