{"id":25175,"date":"2021-11-10T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25175"},"modified":"2021-11-10T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:22:34","slug":"enjoy-the-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25175","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy the Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can&#8217;t track swans across the sky. No trace.<br>The air they&#8217;ve passed as clean as what they breathe.<br>This is because they never cling nor hoard,<br>Just stretch their necks and feet and beat their wings.<br>Or so it was said in a treasured verse:<br>Words uttered and echoed and inked and taught.<br>Yes, but what of those other travelers?<br>The ones who have stowed their treasures aboard?<br>The carpeted cabin is dimmed and hushed.<br>The engines that thrum and gently shake them<br>Churn and burn and scrawl a long vaporous line,<br>Orbiting the orb where swans swim in breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Weimar, Germany, Nov. 5-6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t track swans across the sky. No trace.The air they&#8217;ve passed as clean as what they breathe.This is because they never cling nor hoard,Just stretch their necks and feet and beat their wings.Or so it was said in a treasured verse:Words uttered and echoed and inked and taught.Yes, but what of those other travelers?The [&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-25175","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\/25175","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=25175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25179,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25175\/revisions\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}