{"id":1273,"date":"2013-10-27T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2014-03-05T16:46:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:46:40","slug":"poem-by-jane-kenyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/poem-by-jane-kenyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem by Jane Kenyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobbi Childs Sampson sent this poem to the email chat group. \u00a0We all loved it, and so I decided to give all of the class the opportunity to enjoy it. \u00a0Thanks, Bobbi.<\/p>\n<h2>Otherwise<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>I got out of bed<br \/>\non two strong legs.<br \/>\nIt might have been<br \/>\notherwise. I ate<br \/>\ncereal, sweet<br \/>\nmilk, ripe, flawless<br \/>\npeach. It might<br \/>\nhave been otherwise.<br \/>\nI took the dog uphill<br \/>\nto the birch wood.<br \/>\nAll morning I did<br \/>\nthe work I love.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0noon\u00a0I lay down<br \/>\nwith my mate. It might<br \/>\nhave been otherwise.<br \/>\nWe ate dinner together<br \/>\nat a table with silver<br \/>\ncandlesticks. It might<br \/>\nhave been otherwise.<br \/>\nI slept in a bed<br \/>\nin a room with paintings<br \/>\non the walls, and<br \/>\nplanned another day<br \/>\njust like this day.<br \/>\nBut one day, I know,<br \/>\nit will be otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Jane Kenyon<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobbi Childs Sampson sent this poem to the email chat group. \u00a0We all loved it, and so I decided to give all of the class the opportunity to enjoy it. \u00a0Thanks, Bobbi. Otherwise I got out of bed on two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/poem-by-jane-kenyon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38729],"tags":[21610,21611,14808],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-as-we-age","tag-bobbi","tag-jane-kenyon","tag-poem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}