{"id":21061,"date":"2019-03-11T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21061"},"modified":"2019-03-11T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:52:30","slug":"tangled-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21061","title":{"rendered":"tangled beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Let us be glad for tangled things--<br>\u00a0 \u00a0For soiled fingers raking thick-stemmed grass;<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For matted fur on long, warm ears; <br>Or child's hair idly twisted in rings.<br>\u00a0 \u00a0A thatch of ganglia fires in the brain's wet mass:<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A thought--electric--splits, connects, adheres.<br><br><em>All <\/em>things rooted, snarled, or tensed,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0Whatever needs some mesh to form its mass,<br> With loops, forks; twists, knots; ends, tears.<br>\u00a0 \u00a0Let's give thanks for things that are soft and dense.\u00a0<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=8968\">for Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13892\">Pied Beauty, illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us be glad for tangled things&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0For soiled fingers raking thick-stemmed grass;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For matted fur on long, warm ears; Or child&#8217;s hair idly twisted in rings.\u00a0 \u00a0A thatch of ganglia fires in the brain&#8217;s wet mass:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A thought&#8211;electric&#8211;splits, connects, adheres.All things rooted, snarled, or tensed,\u00a0 \u00a0Whatever needs some mesh to form its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21061"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21101,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions\/21101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}