{"id":2864,"date":"2008-03-08T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2008-03-08T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T04:02:22","slug":"2864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/03\/08\/2864\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Presence Of Still Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wendellberry_herons.jpg\" title=\"wendellberry_herons.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wendellberry_herons.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"wendellberry_herons.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike,<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Beth and I were out for a stroll around Coot Lake wetlands, and we were admiring the flocks of red-wing blackbirds, when we encountered this painting of herons with a poem by Wendell Berry.<\/p>\n<p>When despair for the world grows in me,<br \/>\nand I wake in the night at the least sound<br \/>\nin fear of what my life and my children&#8217;s lives may be,<br \/>\nI go and lie down where the wood drake rests<br \/>\nin his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.<br \/>\nI come into the peace of wild things<br \/>\nwho do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.<br \/>\nI come into the presence of still water.<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Berry<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, Yesterday, Beth and I were out for a stroll around Coot Lake wetlands, and we were admiring the flocks of red-wing blackbirds, when we encountered this painting of herons with a poem by Wendell Berry. When despair for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/03\/08\/2864\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}