{"id":249,"date":"2007-05-23T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2007-05-23T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T14:01:41","slug":"but-its-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"But it&#8217;s spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rose this morning early as usual, and went to my desk.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s spring,<br \/>\nand the thrush is in the woods,<br \/>\nsomewhere in the twirled branches, and he is singing.<br \/>\nAnd so, now, I am standing by the open door.<br \/>\nAnd now I am stepping down into the grass.<br \/>\nI am touching a few leaves.<br \/>\nI am noticing the way the yellow butterflies<br \/>\nmove together, in a twinkling cloud, over the field.<br \/>\nAnd I am thinking: maybe just looking and listening<br \/>\nis the real work.<br \/>\nMaybe the world, without us,<br \/>\nis the real poem.<\/p>\n<p>~ Mary Oliver ~<\/p>\n<p>(The Leaf and the Cloud)<br \/>\nexcerpt from The Book of Time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rose this morning early as usual, and went to my desk. But it&#8217;s spring, and the thrush is in the woods, somewhere in the twirled branches, and he is singing. And so, now, I am standing by the open door. And now I am stepping down into the grass. I am touching a few [&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\/249"}],"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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}