{"id":392,"date":"2011-07-19T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenotic.net\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-07-19T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:03:40","slug":"wild-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/19\/wild-geese\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Geese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful poem by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Oliver\">Mary Oliver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Geese<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Mary Oliver<\/em><\/p>\n<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>A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. &nbsp; Wild Geese by Mary Oliver 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[191,189,192,228,188,138,190],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","tag-beauty","tag-geese","tag-grace","tag-life","tag-mary-oliver","tag-poetry","tag-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}