{"id":329,"date":"2008-04-01T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T23:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T23:23:32","slug":"more-edna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"More Edna&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/conrad-road-w.jpg' title='conrad-road-w.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/conrad-road-w.jpg' alt='conrad-road-w.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Conrad Road, Forsyth County, April 1, 2008<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/roses-w.jpg' title='roses-w.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/roses-w.jpg' alt='roses-w.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mama&#8217;s roses, Yadkin County, April 1, 2008<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Edna is funny when she&#8217;s in a snarly mood. Everyone has an April like that every now and then, I guess. I hope your April is going better than Edna&#8217;s was when she wrote this. I believe it would have been 1920&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>TO what purpose, April, do you return again?<br \/>\nBeauty is not enough.<br \/>\nYou can no longer quiet me with the redness<br \/>\nOf little leaves opening stickily.<br \/>\nI know what I know.<br \/>\nThe sun is hot on my neck as I observe<br \/>\nThe spikes of the crocus.<br \/>\nThe smell of the earth is good.<br \/>\nIt is apparent that there is no death.<br \/>\nBut what does that signify?<br \/>\nNot only under ground are the brains of men<br \/>\nEaten by maggots.<br \/>\nLife in itself<br \/>\nIs nothing,<br \/>\nAn empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.<br \/>\nIt is not enough that yearly, down this hill,<br \/>\nApril<br \/>\nComes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8212; Edna St. Vincent Millay<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conrad Road, Forsyth County, April 1, 2008 Mama&#8217;s roses, Yadkin County, April 1, 2008 Edna is funny when she&#8217;s in a snarly mood. Everyone has an April like that every now and then, I guess. I hope your April is going better than Edna&#8217;s was when she wrote this. I believe it would have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Edna&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}