{"id":3393,"date":"2021-07-01T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2021-07-01T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:48:18","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-136\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #136"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/P4120841-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3394\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I miss travel. I miss exploring new areas and escaping into a different life. I miss the feeling of possibility.  I want to walk into a train station again and experience that heady emotion of adventure before you. Whether you want to escape for a day, a week, or forever, trains will take you there. I shared another poem by Faith Shearin a few years ago. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/a-poem-for-thursday-57\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Even now, I hear one and I long to leave\nwithout a suitcase or a plan; I want to step\nonto the platform and reach for\nthe porter's hand and buy a ticket\nto some other life; I want to sit\nin the big seats and watch fields\nturn into rivers or cities. I want to eat\ncake on the dining car's \nunsteady tablecloths, to sleep\nwhile whole seasons\nslip by. I want to be a passenger\nagain: a person who hears the name\nof a place and stands up, a person\nwho steps into the steam of arrival. \n\nThe Sound of a Train\nFaith Shearin<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss travel. I miss exploring new areas and escaping into a different life. I miss the feeling of possibility. I want to walk into a train station again and experience that heady emotion of adventure before you. Whether you want to escape for a day, a week, or forever, trains will take you there. I shared another poem by Faith Shearin a few years ago. You can read it here. Even now, I hear one and I long to leave without a suitcase or a plan; I want to step onto the platform and reach for the porter&#8217;s hand and buy a ticket to some other life; I want to sit in the big seats and watch fields turn into rivers or cities. I want to eat cake on the dining car&#8217;s unsteady tablecloths, to sleep while whole seasons slip by. I want to be a passenger again: a person who hears the name of a place and stands up, a person who steps into the steam of arrival. The Sound of a Train Faith Shearin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3394,"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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}