{"id":34250,"date":"2025-07-21T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=34250"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:35:26","slug":"the-day-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=34250","title":{"rendered":"The Day of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I wish I did not have that human wish,<br>The wish that today were a different day,<br>But the wish that pours forth in the song of a bird:<br>\u201cMay it be this same day, so may it be.\u201d<br><br>No, a bird sings not to say but to be.<br>It grants a wish just by being heard.<br>I wish I didn\u2019t want the day to stay<br><em>Or<\/em> change. I should, like the bird, just be.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>(Responding to Randall Jarrell&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/49883\/a-man-meets-a-woman-in-the-street\">A Man Meets a Woman in the Street<\/a>,&#8221; with Keats&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25633\">nightingale<\/a> also in mind.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I did not have that human wish,The wish that today were a different day,But the wish that pours forth in the song of a bird:\u201cMay it be this same day, so may it be.\u201dNo, a bird sings not to say but to be.It grants a wish just by being heard.I wish I didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34250","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\/34250","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=34250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34254,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34250\/revisions\/34254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}