{"id":146423,"date":"2019-11-11T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=146423"},"modified":"2019-10-28T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:20:14","slug":"the-weighing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/11\/the-weighing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weighing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The heart\u2019s reasons<br \/>\nseen clearly,<br \/>\neven the hardest<br \/>\nwill carry<br \/>\nits whip-marks and sadness<br \/>\nand must be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As the drought-starved<br \/>\neland forgives<br \/>\nthe drought-starved lion<br \/>\nwho finally takes her,<br \/>\nenters willingly then<br \/>\nthe life she cannot refuse,<br \/>\nand is lion, is fed,<br \/>\nand does not remember the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So few grains of happiness<br \/>\nmeasured against all the dark<br \/>\nand still the scales balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The world asks of us<br \/>\nonly the strength we have and we give it.<br \/>\nThen it asks more, and we give it.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jane-Hirshfield.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-146424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jane-Hirshfield-e1572250653742.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Jane Hirshfield is an American poet, essayist and translator born 24 Feb 1953 in New York City. She received her bachelor&#8217;s degree from Princeton University in the school&#8217;s first graduating class to include women.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heart\u2019s reasons<br \/>\nseen clearly,<br \/>\neven the hardest<br \/>\nwill carry<br \/>\nits whip-marks and sadness<br \/>\nand must be forgiven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-146423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}