{"id":4092,"date":"2012-03-15T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2012-03-15T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:20:37","slug":"babbling-and-strewing-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"Babbling and strewing flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pear-blossom-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pear-blossom-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pear-blossom-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4093\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The pear trees up the hill from me. Click on photo for high-res version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time for the annual posting of a poem about spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1921.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pear-blossom-3-bw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pear-blossom-3-bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pear-blossom-3-bw\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4097\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Click on photo for high-res version<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pear trees up the hill from me. Click on photo for high-res version. I think it&#8217;s time for the annual posting of a poem about spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Spring To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Babbling and strewing flowers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","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=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}