{"id":25,"date":"2007-11-01T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-11-01T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T01:37:04","slug":"why-so-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Why so sad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We all children<\/strong><br \/>\nI went home to see my Mother<br \/>\nIn the quiet house.<br \/>\nChildren, twelve, had we been<br \/>\nAnd children we returned.<\/p>\n<p>Shades of tomorrow we all<br \/>\nHave plucking at our heels.<br \/>\n&ldquo;Look at me,&rdquo; they say, each one,<br \/>\nYoung dreams, attention-starved.<\/p>\n<p>Constantly our shades will clamor<br \/>\nIf we regard them still.<br \/>\nMother watched her shades leave her<br \/>\nAnd we watched her watch them.<\/p>\n<p>Each of us within her grew till<br \/>\nOur time had come for birth.<br \/>\nNow in her the end of dreaming<br \/>\nQuelled all tomorrow&rsquo;s sprites.<\/p>\n<p>We all children understood that<br \/>\nHer sunrise soon would come.<br \/>\nBlessed by her, by God&rsquo;s free gift, we<br \/>\nSaw childhood&rsquo;s end, our night.<\/p>\n<p>7\/17\/2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all children I went home to see my Mother In the quiet house. Children, twelve, had we been And children we returned. Shades of tomorrow we all Have plucking at our heels. &ldquo;Look at me,&rdquo; they say, each one, Young dreams, attention-starved. Constantly our shades will clamor If we regard them still. Mother watched her shades leave her And <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=25\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}