{"id":21891,"date":"2020-03-26T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=21891"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:28:29","slug":"in-honor-of-spring-and-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=21891","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of Spring and Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0038-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0038-1.jpeg\" title=\"Clouds\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0038-1.jpeg 2500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0038-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0038-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or at least the last snow, still on the ground in places. <\/p>\n<p>And in honor of the birthday of Robert Frost, one of my heroes. I appreciate the view of the world he showed us, with the hope in so many small things.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Onset<\/p>\n<p>Always the same, when on a fated night<br \/>\nAt last the gathered snow lets down as white<br \/>\nAs may be in dark woods, and with a song<br \/>\nIt shall not make again all winter long<br \/>\nOf hissing on the yet uncovered ground,<br \/>\nI almost stumble looking up and round,<br \/>\nAs one who overtaken by the end<br \/>\nGives up his errand, and lets death descend<br \/>\nUpon him where he is, with nothing done<br \/>\nTo evil, no important triumph won,<br \/>\nMore than if life had never been begun.<\/p>\n<p>Yet all the precedent is on my side:<br \/>\nI know that winter death has never tried<br \/>\nThe earth but it has failed: the snow may heap<br \/>\nIn long storms an undrifted four feet deep<br \/>\nAs measured against maple, birch, and oak,<br \/>\nIt cannot check the peeper\u2019s silver croak;<br \/>\nAnd I shall see the snow all go down hill<br \/>\nIn water of a slender April rill<br \/>\nThat flashes tail through last year\u2019s withered brake<br \/>\nAnd dead weeds, like a disappearing snake.<br \/>\nNothing will be left white but here a birch,<br \/>\nAnd there a clump of houses with a church.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Frost<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet all the precedent is on my side: &#8211;<br \/>\nI know that winter death has never tried &#8211;<br \/>\nThe earth but it has failed <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=21891\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21893,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[147,51,163],"tags":[271,302,1094,105],"class_list":["post-21891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-the-creative-process","category-words","tag-frost","tag-hope","tag-onset","tag-poetry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0038-1.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-5H5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891","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=21891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21894,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891\/revisions\/21894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}