{"id":142336,"date":"2026-01-01T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142336"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:07:36","slug":"poetry-for-new-years-day-to-the-new-year-by-w-s-merwin-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142336","title":{"rendered":"Poetry for New Years Day\u2013\u2018To the New Year\u2019 by W S Merwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so this is the sound of you<br>here and now whether or not<br>anyone hears it this is<br>where we have come with our age<br>our knowledge such as it is<br>and our hopes such as they are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/54327\/to-the-new-year\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chicago ushers in 2026 with a BANG! Last night at midnight along the Chicago River. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chicago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#chicago<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewYear2026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewYear2026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OvoeJueXMq\">pic.twitter.com\/OvoeJueXMq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Barry Butler Photography (@barrybutler9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrybutler9\/status\/2006701642859577592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so this is the sound of youhere and now whether or notanyone hears it this iswhere we have come with our ageour knowledge such as it isand our hopes such as they are Read it all. Chicago ushers in 2026<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142336\">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":[48,187,133,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-history","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142336","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=142336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142340,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142336\/revisions\/142340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}