{"id":5224,"date":"2022-06-13T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2021-12-11T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:59:34","slug":"happy-yeats-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/happy-yeats-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Yeats Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>W.B. Yeats was born on this day. What&#8217;s your favorite Yeats poem? Here is mine. I especially like the first half. It gets a little pessimistic in the second half, but that&#8217;s Yeats, and well, sometimes that&#8217;s life too. But what I like is the image it forms so perfectly in my head. The carefree child, celebrating life. If only we could hold on to some of that as we age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">To a Child Dancing in the Wind, 1916<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5225\" width=\"531\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920-850x1275.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boy-ge56a65233_1920.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay License<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Dance there upon the shore;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What need have you to care<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">For wind or water\u2019s roar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">And tumble out your hair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">That the salt drops have wet;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Being young you have not known<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The fool\u2019s triumph, nor yet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Love lost as soon as won,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Nor the best labourer dead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">And all the sheaves to bind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What need have you to dread<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The monstrous crying of wind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W.B. Yeats was born on this day. What&#8217;s your favorite Yeats poem? Here is mine. I especially like the first half. It gets a little pessimistic in the second half, but that&#8217;s Yeats, and well, sometimes that&#8217;s life too. But what I like is the image it forms so perfectly in my head. The carefree&#8230;<\/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-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5226,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}