{"id":24553,"date":"2021-06-29T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=24553"},"modified":"2021-06-29T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:38:53","slug":"the-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=24553","title":{"rendered":"the student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">A Victorian house on a stately street,\nFormal, ornate. The bell breaks the silence.\nWould a gift have been wise--something to eat? \nWhen to shift from pleasantries to science?\nA ticking clock, long rows of serious books,\nChina, polished wood, a distant dog barks.\nPay attention, this might have some value.\nIt's rude to seek help without taking advice.\nNow say what you've really come for, shall you?\nThen: time to go? Did our talking suffice?\nNot for years now have I been the visitor.\nThis is my parlor and I am the grey one,\nThe host, the ear, the kindly inquisitor.\nHow can it be that it's my turn to play one?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22338\">Midlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Victorian house on a stately street, Formal, ornate. The bell breaks the silence. Would a gift have been wise&#8211;something to eat? When to shift from pleasantries to science? A ticking clock, long rows of serious books, China, polished wood, a distant dog barks. Pay attention, this might have some value. It&#8217;s rude to seek [&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-24553","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\/24553","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=24553"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24575,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553\/revisions\/24575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}