{"id":4244,"date":"2012-03-19T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T07:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2012-03-19T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T07:29:12","slug":"the-darkness-around-us-is-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/the-darkness-around-us-is-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"The darkness around us is deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a32.jpg\" alt=\"a32\" title=\"a32\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a32.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a32-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/a32-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William Stafford<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know the kind of person I am<br \/>\nand I don&#8217;t know the kind of person you are<br \/>\na pattern that others made may prevail in the world<br \/>\nand following the wrong god home we may miss our star.<\/p>\n<p>For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,<br \/>\na shrug that lets the fragile sequence break<br \/>\nsending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood<br \/>\nstorming out to play through the broken dyke.<\/p>\n<p>And as elephants parade holding each elephant&#8217;s tail,<br \/>\nbut if one wanders the circus won&#8217;t find the park,<br \/>\nI call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty<br \/>\nto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.<\/p>\n<p>And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,<br \/>\na remote important region in all who talk:<br \/>\nthough we could fool each other, we should consider\u2014<br \/>\nlest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>For it is important that awake people be awake,<br \/>\nor a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;<br \/>\nthe signals we give\u2014yes or no, or maybe\u2014<br \/>\nshould be clear: the darkness around us is deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William Stafford If you don&#8217;t know the kind of person I am and I don&#8217;t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}