{"id":4930,"date":"2025-03-13T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T00:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2025-03-13T20:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T00:46:28","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-297\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #297"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/freestocks-Y9mWkERHYCU-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4931\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@freestocks?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">freestocks<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/heart-bokeh-light-Y9mWkERHYCU?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edna St. Vincent Millay is one of the first poets I ever properly appreciated and I truly thought I had read pretty much all of her works. However, I don&#8217;t remember this poem. Isn&#8217;t it lovely?<\/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\">I, having loved ever since I was a child a few things, never having <br>     wavered<br>In these affections; never through shyness in the houses of the<br>     rich of in the presence of clergymen having denied these<br>     loves;<br>Never when worked upon by cynics like chiropractors having<br>     grunted or clicked a vertebra to the discredit of these loves;<br>Never when anxious to land a job having diminished them by a <br>     conniving smile; or when befuddled by drink<br>Jeered them through heartache or lazily fondled the fingers of <br>     their alert enemies; declare<br><br>That I shall love you always.<br>No matter what party is in power;<br>No matter what temporarily expedient combination of allied<br>     interests wins the war;<br>Shall love you always.<br><br>Modern Declaration<br>Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edna St. Vincent Millay is one of the first poets I ever properly appreciated and I truly thought I had read pretty much all of her works. However, I don&#8217;t remember this poem. Isn&#8217;t it lovely? I, having loved ever since I was a child a few things, never having waveredIn these affections; never through shyness in the houses of the rich of in the presence of clergymen having denied these loves;Never when worked upon by cynics like chiropractors having grunted or clicked a vertebra to the discredit of these loves;Never when anxious to land a job having diminished them by a conniving smile; or when befuddled by drinkJeered them through heartache or lazily fondled the fingers of their alert enemies; declareThat I shall love you always.No matter what party is in power;No matter what temporarily expedient combination of allied interests wins the war;Shall love you always.Modern DeclarationEdna St. Vincent Millay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4931,"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-4930","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\/4930","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=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}