{"id":3577,"date":"2021-10-21T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2021-10-21T08:35:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:35:03","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/21\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-152\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #152"},"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\/10\/PA200688-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3578\"\/><\/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 like Robert Frost&#8217;s poetry because it is so evocative of the New England I grew up in. Autumn in Ohio has been a great disappointment so far but I am hoping this is just a bad year for fall foliage and not indicative of the typical autumns. It has been so warm that the leaves haven&#8217;t been changing much at all. For now, I&#8217;ll read Frost&#8217;s poem about October and picture the New England scenery. <\/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\">O hushed October morning mild,\nThy leaves have ripened to the fall;\nTomorrow's wind, if it be wild,\nShould waste them all.\nThe crows above the forest call;\nTomorrow they may form and go,\nO hushed October morning mild,\nBegin the hours of this day slow.\nMake the day seem to us less brief.\nHearts not averse to being beguiled,\nBeguile us in the way you know.\nRelease one leaf at break of day;\nAt noon release another leaf;\nOne from our trees, one far away.\nRetard the sun with gentle mist;\nEnchant the land with amethyst.\nSlow, slow!\nFor the grape's sake, if they were all,\nWhose leaves already burnt with frost,\nWhose clustered fruit must else be lost--\nFor the grape's sake along the wall.\n\nOctober\nRobert Frost\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Robert Frost&#8217;s poetry because it is so evocative of the New England I grew up in. Autumn in Ohio has been a great disappointment so far but I am hoping this is just a bad year for fall foliage and not indicative of the typical autumns. It has been so warm that the leaves haven&#8217;t been changing much at all. For now, I&#8217;ll read Frost&#8217;s poem about October and picture the New England scenery. O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow&#8217;s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go, O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away. Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst. Slow, slow! For the grape&#8217;s sake, if they were all, Whose leaves already burnt with frost, Whose clustered fruit must else be lost&#8211; For the grape&#8217;s sake along the wall. October Robert Frost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3578,"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-3577","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\/3577","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=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}