{"id":15830,"date":"2016-04-04T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=15830"},"modified":"2016-04-30T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T01:48:33","slug":"random-thread-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=15830","title":{"rendered":"Random Thread: April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kipling-cat.jpg\" alt=\"Kipling, The Cat That Walked by Himself\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.<br \/>\nI feel my fate in what I cannot fear.<br \/>\nI learn by going where I have to go. <\/p>\n<p>We think by feeling. What is there to know?<br \/>\nI hear my being dance from ear to ear.<br \/>\nI wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. <\/p>\n<p>Of those so close behind me, which are you?<br \/>\nGod bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,<br \/>\nAnd learn by going where I have to go. <\/p>\n<p>Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?<br \/>\nThe lonely worm climbs up a winding stair;<br \/>\nI wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. <\/p>\n<p>Great Nature has another thing to do<br \/>\nTo you and me; so take the lively air;<br \/>\nAnd, lovely, learn by going where to go. <\/p>\n<p>This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.<br \/>\nWhat falls away is always. And is near.<br \/>\nI wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.<br \/>\nI learn by going where I have to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;&#8220;The Waking&#8221; by Theodore Roethke<br \/>\n(Illustration: &#8220;The Cat That Walked by Himself&#8221; by Rudyard Kipling)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15830"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15852,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions\/15852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}