{"id":889,"date":"2007-09-14T00:48:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T06:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=889"},"modified":"2007-09-14T00:49:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T06:49:13","slug":"poetry-friday-james-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: James Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maltedmedia.com\/people\/bathory\/waam-20060727.html\"><img src='http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ponies-eat.jpg' alt='ponies-eat.jpg' \/><\/a>I just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poet.html?id=7564\"><strong>James Wright<\/strong><\/a>, and I&#8217;m so enamored of so many of his poems that it&#8217;s hard to choose just one to share. But I think I&#8217;ll go with one of his happier ones, something lovely and wild. Something with ponies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=175780\"><strong>&#8220;A Blessing&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;We step over the barbed wire into the pasture<br \/>\nWhere they have been grazing all day, alone.<br \/>\nThey ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness<br \/>\nThat we have come.<br \/>\nThey bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.<br \/>\nThere is no loneliness like theirs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=175780\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. And have a lovely Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered James Wright, and I&#8217;m so enamored of so many of his poems that it&#8217;s hard to choose just one to share. But I think I&#8217;ll go with one of his happier ones, something lovely and wild. Something with ponies. &#8220;A Blessing&#8221; &#8230;We step over the barbed wire into the pasture Where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}