{"id":14046,"date":"2016-04-01T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2016-04-01T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T18:28:56","slug":"happy-day-one-napowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=14046","title":{"rendered":"Happy Day One &#8211; NaPoWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, April First, the land of fly-offering trout fishermen and poets. I have been listening to the Yale course on Modern Poetry and enjoying the odd mix of mostly American poets who converged on London and published their works while hanging out together. I left the radio and iPhone off this morning, hoping to think of a poem&#8217;s start on the drive in. Nothing really came to mind or stuck so I ended up reciting the Frost poems that I have, mostly, by heart. So here&#8217;s my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\" target=\"_blank\">NaPoWriMo<\/a> offering for April, likely to be revised later or later on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This morning&#8217;s drive, spent with Frost and meter,<br \/>\nthe miles passing with changes of season:<br \/>\nwinter, dark and seductive and stealth,<br \/>\nsneaking in with quiet telltale whisper<br \/>\ntales of trees and boys and earthly loving<br \/>\nliving in a world of storm and wisdom<br \/>\nknowledge scraped up from hard pan New England<br \/>\nthe land rocky, hills greening with the spring<br \/>\nreturning, returning like a love lost<br \/>\nand met again by chance at a corner<br \/>\nwhere life and history meet every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the land rocky, hills greening with the spring \u2022<br \/>\nreturning, returning like a love lost <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=14046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12,13,65,147,51],"tags":[202,541,105,192,426],"class_list":["post-14046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deadlines","category-do-the-work","category-napowrimo","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-the-creative-process","tag-dothework","tag-napowrimo","tag-poetry","tag-process","tag-robertfrost"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3Ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14048,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions\/14048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}