{"id":215040,"date":"2022-06-13T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=215040"},"modified":"2022-06-13T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T02:59:12","slug":"on-looking-up-by-chance-at-the-constellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/on-looking-up-by-chance-at-the-constellations\/","title":{"rendered":"On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You\u2019ll wait a long, long time for anything much<br \/>\nTo happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud<br \/>\nAnd the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.<br \/>\nThe sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,<br \/>\nNor strike out fire from each other nor crash out loud.<br \/>\nThe planets seem to interfere in their curves \u2014<br \/>\nBut nothing ever happens, no harm is done.<br \/>\nWe may as well go patiently on with our life,<br \/>\nAnd look elsewhere than to stars and moon and sun<br \/>\nFor the shocks and changes we need to keep us sane.<br \/>\nIt is true the longest drought will end in rain,<br \/>\nThe longest peace in China will end in strife.<br \/>\nStill it wouldn\u2019t reward the watcher to stay awake<br \/>\nIn hopes of seeing the calm of heaven break<br \/>\nOn his particular time and personal sight.<br \/>\nThat calm seems certainly safe to last to-night.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Robert-Lee-Frost.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-215041 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Robert-Lee-Frost-e1655089034982.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Robert Lee Frost (26 Mar 1874 \u2013 29 Jan 1963) was a U.S. poet much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of U.S. colloquial speech, and his realistic verses portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll wait a long, long time for anything much<br \/>\nTo happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud<br \/>\nAnd the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-215040","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\/215040","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=215040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215040\/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=215040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}