{"id":116467,"date":"2022-11-09T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116467"},"modified":"2022-11-09T18:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T23:48:22","slug":"food-for-thought-from-mary-oliver-for-a-wednesday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116467","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought from Mary Oliver for a Wednesday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh do you have time<br \/>\nto linger<br \/>\nfor just a little while<br \/>\nout of your busy<\/p>\n<p>and very important day<br \/>\nfor the goldfinches<br \/>\nthat have gathered<br \/>\nin a field of thistles<\/p>\n<p>for a musical battle,<br \/>\nto see who can sing<br \/>\nthe highest note,<br \/>\nor the lowest,<\/p>\n<p>or the most expressive of mirth,<br \/>\nor the most tender?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read it carefully and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordsfortheyear.com\/2017\/08\/28\/invitation-by-mary-oliver\/\">read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">American goldfinches enjoying some sweet gum goodness at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Park <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/americangoldfinch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#americangoldfinch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/birdwatching?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#birdwatching<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3rYN9Q9DH4\">pic.twitter.com\/3rYN9Q9DH4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gigi A (@gigi_nyc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gigi_nyc\/status\/1590400146852155392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistles for a musical battle, to see who can sing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116467\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116469,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116467\/revisions\/116469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}