{"id":6461,"date":"2013-01-23T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T15:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2013-01-23T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T15:17:21","slug":"poem-why-i-am-happy-by-william-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/poem-why-i-am-happy-by-william-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Why I Am Happy by William Stafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/birdseed.jpg\" alt=\"birdseed\" width=\"864\" height=\"864\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/birdseed.jpg 864w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/birdseed-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/birdseed-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/birdseed-432x432.jpg 432w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/birdseed-268x268.jpg 268w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/birdseed-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhy I Am Happy<\/p>\n<p>Now has come, an easy time. I let it<br \/>\nroll. There is a lake somewhere<br \/>\nso blue and far nobody owns it.<br \/>\nA wind comes by and a willow listens<br \/>\ngracefully.<br \/>\nI hear all this, every summer. I laugh<br \/>\nand cry for every turn of the world,<br \/>\nits terribly cold, innocent spin.<br \/>\nThat lake stays blue and free; it goes<br \/>\non and on.<br \/>\nAnd I know where it is. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; William Stafford <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I Am Happy Now has come, an easy time. I let it roll. There is a lake somewhere so blue and far nobody owns it. A wind comes by and a willow listens gracefully. I hear all this, every summer. I laugh and cry for every turn of the world, its terribly cold, innocent [&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-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","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=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}