{"id":539,"date":"2008-08-22T06:41:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T10:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-08-28T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T19:45:46","slug":"staying-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/staying-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying, Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a title=\"whiskey river: 'Air,' by W.S. Merwin\" href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyriver.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/air-naturally-it-is-night.html\" target=\"_blank\">whiskey river<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Air<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naturally it is night.<br \/>\nUnder the overturned lute with its<br \/>\nOne string I am going my way<br \/>\nWhich has a strange sound.<\/p>\n<p>This way the dust, that way the dust.<br \/>\nI listen to both sides<br \/>\nBut I keep right on.<br \/>\nI remember the leaves sitting in judgment<br \/>\nAnd then winter.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the rain with its bundle of roads.<br \/>\nThe rain taking all its roads.<br \/>\nNowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Young as I am, old as I am,<\/p>\n<p>I forget tomorrow, the blind man.<br \/>\nI forget the life among the buried windows.<br \/>\nThe eyes in the curtains.<br \/>\nThe wall<br \/>\nGrowing through the <span class=\"explannote\" title=\"a\/k\/a Xeranthemum, 'everlasting flower'\">immortelles<\/span>.<br \/>\nI forget silence<br \/>\nThe owner of the smile.<\/p>\n<p>This must be what I wanted to be doing,<br \/>\nWalking at night between the two deserts,<br \/>\nSinging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(by W. S. Merwin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From whiskey river: Air Naturally it is night. Under the overturned lute with its One string I am going my way Which has a strange sound. This way the dust, that way the dust. I listen to both sides But I keep right on. I remember the leaves sitting in judgment And then winter. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,1393,251],"tags":[178,351,352],"class_list":{"0":"post-539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ruminations","7":"category-whiskey-river-runningaftermyhat","8":"category-poetry-writing_cat","9":"tag-whiskey-river","10":"tag-ws-merwin","11":"tag-merwin","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-8H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5554,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}