{"id":274691,"date":"2024-09-23T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=274691"},"modified":"2024-09-22T07:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:13:32","slug":"strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We pop into life the way<br \/>\nparticles pop in and out<br \/>\nof the continuum.<br \/>\nWe are a seething mass<br \/>\nof probability.<br \/>\nAnd probably I love you.<br \/>\nThe evil of larvae<br \/>\nand the evil of stars<br \/>\nare a formula for the future.<br \/>\nSome bodies can<br \/>\nthrust their arms into<br \/>\na flame and be instantly<br \/>\ncured of this world,<br \/>\nwhile others sicken.<br \/>\nWhy think, little brother<br \/>\nlike the moon, spit out like<br \/>\na broken tooth.<br \/>\n\u201cOh,\u201d groans the world.<br \/>\nThe outer planets,<br \/>\nthe fizzing sun, here we come<br \/>\nwith our luggage.<br \/>\nLook at the clever things<br \/>\nwe have made out of<br \/>\na few building blocks \u2014<br \/>\nO fabulous continuum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Strings&quot; by Ruth Stone (read by David Byrne)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vS29Vojgnzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ruth_Stone_2009.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-274693 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ruth_Stone_2009-e1726985203445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a>Ruth Stone (8 Jun 1915\u00a0\u2013 19 Nov 2011) was a poet born in Virginia, USA and attended the University of Illinois. Her work is distinguished by the tendency to draw imagery and language from the natural sciences. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We pop into life the way<br \/>\nparticles pop in and out<br \/>\nof the continuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":274693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1170,868],"class_list":["post-274691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-life","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274691","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=274691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274699,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274691\/revisions\/274699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}