{"id":1391,"date":"2013-12-20T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2014-03-05T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:46:39","slug":"ode-to-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/ode-to-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Poem from <em>Bette Keck Peterson,\u00a0<\/em>December 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>ODE to TAXES<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">This year I paid no income tax,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">On certain holdings I posses,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">Having an equity in wind,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">A lien on each day&#8217;s loveliness.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">I shared a mortgage with the sun,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">Collected interest from the sea,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">The autumn rains and winter storms,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">Paid extra dividends to me .<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">I watched my revenues increase,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">The total of my balance mount.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">Now more than I can ever spend,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080\">Is credited to my account.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/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>Poem from Bette Keck Peterson,\u00a0December 2013 ODE to TAXES This year I paid no income tax, On certain holdings I posses, Having an equity in wind, A lien on each day&#8217;s loveliness. I shared a mortgage with the sun, Collected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/ode-to-taxes\/\">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":"closed","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":[21548],"tags":[21627,21628,21629,14808,21630],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary","tag-bette","tag-keck","tag-peterson","tag-poem","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","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=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}