{"id":682,"date":"2005-09-04T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T01:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=682"},"modified":"2005-09-04T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T01:52:17","slug":"at-great-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/09\/04\/at-great-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"At Great Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pond_night_group_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/pond_night_group_sm.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"210\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/pond_night_group.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At Great Pond<br \/>\nthe sun, rising,<br \/>\nscrapes his orange breast<br \/>\non the thick pines,<br \/>\nand down tumble<br \/>\na few orange feathers into<br \/>\nthe dark water.<br \/>\nOn the far shore<br \/>\na white bird is standing<br \/>\nlike a white candle &#8212;<br \/>\nor a man, in the distance,<br \/>\nin the clasp of some meditation &#8212;<br \/>\nwhile all around me the lilies<br \/>\nare breaking open again<br \/>\nfrom the black cave<br \/>\nof the night.<br \/>\nLater, I will consider<br \/>\nwhat I have seen &#8212;<br \/>\nwhat it could signify &#8212;<br \/>\nwhat words of adoration I might<br \/>\nmake of it, and to do this<br \/>\nI will go indoors to my desk &#8212;<br \/>\nI will sit in my chair &#8212;<br \/>\nI will look back<br \/>\ninto the lost morning<br \/>\nin which I am moving, now,<br \/>\nlike a swimmer,<br \/>\nso smoothly,<br \/>\nso peacefully,<br \/>\nI am almost the lily &#8212;<br \/>\nalmost the bird vanishing over the water<br \/>\non its sleeves of night. <\/p>\n<p>Mary Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View larger image At Great Pond the sun, rising, scrapes his orange breast on the thick pines, and down tumble a few orange feathers into the dark water. On the far shore a white bird is standing like a white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/09\/04\/at-great-pond\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}