{"id":25458,"date":"2022-01-10T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25458"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:08:16","slug":"hush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25458","title":{"rendered":"Hush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Thin stands of bare-limbed maples and pines\nBarely hide cinder-block buildings and signs,\nBut snow, fresh snow, wet snow: snow drapes all. \nEach twig or needle bears as many crystals\nAs could possibly be piled upon it,\nBecoming a slender line under white,\nEach just a tiny part of the lacy whole.\nTrees are huge versions of their own branches;\nBranches, like their own ornamented twigs;\nDrifts, composed of delicate, gem-like flakes. \nNo shortcuts. No \u201cPaint that whole section white.\u201d\nEven in the densest thickets, each branch\nIs intricately decorated with snow.\nWhat superfluous generosity,\nWhat quiet power. The road, too, is hushed. \nCars file through, wheels whispering, as if\nReminded of what they have done, although\nThe storm does not mean to chide or console.\nIt is not meant for us; it simply is.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21296\">More Temperate<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21061\">Tangled Beauty<\/a>; and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10138\">Notes on Gerard Manley Hopkins\u2019 Spring and Fall\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thin stands of bare-limbed maples and pines Barely hide cinder-block buildings and signs, But snow, fresh snow, wet snow: snow drapes all. Each twig or needle bears as many crystals As could possibly be piled upon it, Becoming a slender line under white, Each just a tiny part of the lacy whole. Trees are huge [&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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458","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=25458"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25471,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions\/25471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}