{"id":19370,"date":"2017-05-20T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=19370"},"modified":"2017-05-20T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T14:47:07","slug":"spring-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2017\/05\/20\/spring-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in the fleeting thick of it now\u2014trillium time, apple blossom time. It is only a moment in the wheel of the year, so savor. How quickly a square of chocolate melts in the mouth and is gone. What if you could only have one once a year?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19372\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/05\/trilliumprint.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19372\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19372\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/05\/trilliumprint.jpg\" alt=\"Trillium print by T. Ellen Fisher, c. 1900.\" width=\"320\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/05\/trilliumprint.jpg 544w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/05\/trilliumprint-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/05\/trilliumprint-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trillium print by T. Ellen Fisher, c. 1900.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Spring of the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the heron is home,<br \/>\nwhen trillium light the path,<br \/>\nwhen apple petals dust<br \/>\nthe yard and all the leaves<br \/>\nare young, I remember&#8211;<br \/>\nwe were built for Eden.<\/p>\n<p>This pure cumulus white<br \/>\nagainst a piercing blue,<br \/>\nlight like honey poured<br \/>\nout over rolling hills\u2014<br \/>\nyes, yes&#8211;I remember<br \/>\nhow it was in Eden.<\/p>\n<p>Would that it could stay,<br \/>\nnot boil off into summer,<br \/>\nnor burn with autumn,<br \/>\nnor freeze the long dark.<br \/>\nWe were built for Eden<br \/>\nbut had to have the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in the fleeting thick of it now\u2014trillium time, apple blossom time. It is only [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions\/19376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}