{"id":8,"date":"2005-01-03T00:24:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T04:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-01-03T00:24:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T04:24:56","slug":"the-journey-by-mary-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"The Journey by Mary Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day you finally knew<br \/>\nwhat you had to do, and began,<br \/>\nthough the voices around you<br \/>\nkept shouting<br \/>\ntheir bad advice&#8211;<br \/>\nthough the whole house<br \/>\nbegan to tremble<br \/>\nand you felt the old tug<br \/>\nat your ankles.<br \/>\n&#8220;Mend my life!&#8221;<br \/>\neach voice cried.<br \/>\nBut you didn&#8217;t stop.<br \/>\nYou knew what you had to do,<br \/>\nthough the wind pried<br \/>\nwith its stiff fingers<br \/>\nat the very foundations,<br \/>\nthough their melancholy<br \/>\nwas terrible.<br \/>\nIt was already late<br \/>\nenough, and a wild night,<br \/>\nand the road full of fallen<br \/>\nbranches and stones.<br \/>\nBut little by little,<br \/>\nas you left their voices behind,<br \/>\nthe stars began to burn<br \/>\nthrough the sheets of clouds,<br \/>\nand there was a new voice<br \/>\nwhich you slowly<br \/>\nrecognized as your own,<br \/>\nthat kept you company<br \/>\nas you strode deeper and deeper<br \/>\ninto the world,<br \/>\ndetermined to do<br \/>\nthe only thing you could do&#8211;<br \/>\ndetermined to save<br \/>\nthe only life you could save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice&#8211; though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. &#8220;Mend my life!&#8221; each voice cried. But you didn&#8217;t stop. You knew what you had to do, [&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\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}