{"id":12635,"date":"2016-03-21T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12635"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T06:25:14","slug":"nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12635","title":{"rendered":"Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There go the grasshoppers,<br \/>\nthere goes the wheat.<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t have a single word<br \/>\nfor the wheat ear.<\/p>\n<p>Next to the cut field<br \/>\na finch alternates between<br \/>\ntossing thistledown and<br \/>\nattacking the picture window,<br \/>\neven if I stand there<br \/>\nwaving my arms.<\/p>\n<p>I was seated before an ant.<br \/>\nThe ant drug a caterpillar<br \/>\ntwenty times its own weight,<br \/>\nsubtle as an oven rack.<br \/>\nThis is nothing, he said<br \/>\nand never considered my shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us think a drop<br \/>\nof antique oil<br \/>\non a puddle is pretty.<\/p>\n<p>We anoint bodies and houses<br \/>\non foreheads and lintels.<br \/>\nBut where to bless a field?<br \/>\nPut away your map for now.<br \/>\nA little wind will nudge you.<br \/>\nYou are better than<br \/>\nthe blue affection of television.<br \/>\nRemember, not every answer<br \/>\nhas your name in it.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12610\">John Poch<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There go the grasshoppers, there goes the wheat. We don\u2019t have a single word for the wheat ear. Next to the cut field a finch alternates between tossing thistledown and attacking the picture window, even if I stand there waving my arms. I was seated before an ant. The ant drug a caterpillar twenty times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-nature","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12636,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions\/12636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}