{"id":5782,"date":"2012-10-17T08:25:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T12:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2012-10-17T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:08:30","slug":"assurance-by-william-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/assurance-by-william-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for Autumn: Assurance by William Stafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/autumnassurance.jpg\" alt=\"autumnassurance\" title=\"autumnassurance\" width=\"470\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/autumnassurance.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/autumnassurance-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAssurance<br \/>\nby William Stafford<\/p>\n<p>\nYou will never be alone, you hear so deep<br \/>\na sound when autumn comes. Yellow<br \/>\npulls across the hills and thrums,<br \/>\nor the silence after lightning before it says<br \/>\nits names \u2013 and then the clouds\u2019 wide-mouthed<br \/>\napologies. You were aimed from birth:<br \/>\nyou will never be alone. Rain<br \/>\nwill come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,<br \/>\nlong aisles \u2013 you never heard so deep a sound,<br \/>\nmoss on rock, and years. You turn your head \u2013<br \/>\nthat\u2019s what the silence meant: you\u2019re not alone.<br \/>\nThe whole wide world pours down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assurance by William Stafford You will never be alone, you hear so deep a sound when autumn comes. Yellow pulls across the hills and thrums, or the silence after lightning before it says its names \u2013 and then the clouds\u2019 wide-mouthed apologies. You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone. Rain will come, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","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=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}