{"id":5764,"date":"2009-09-02T07:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T07:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2011-05-14T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T21:56:21","slug":"marthas-vineyard-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5764","title":{"rendered":"Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Objects in view: one set of sculpted cliffs,<br \/>\nVenerated by the Wampanoags,<br \/>\nTopped by a Yankee lighthouse whose clocklike beam<br \/>\nWon the Paris Exposition prize, one<br \/>\nSteaming sea stirred by an African storm,<br \/>\nOne red sunset, one skipping long-limbed child,<br \/>\nMy child, whose footprints the sea erases.<\/p>\n<p>Too much to say about all this, too hard<br \/>\nTo say it; too many layers, too wide<br \/>\nThe scope, from Pilgrims&#8217; footfalls to the trope<br \/>\nOf ocean sunsets as the end of all.<br \/>\nToo much Homer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/authors\/arnold\/writings\/doverbeach.html\">Arnold<\/a>, Childe Hassam.<br \/>\nA place we travel hours to admire<br \/>\nIs no sight to try to praise in words.<\/p>\n<p>Better to turn from the loud-resounding sea<br \/>\nTo other sites where long-limbed daughters play,<br \/>\nSuns set, and settlers built on worshipped land:<br \/>\nTakeout windows, mowed weeds between sidewalks<br \/>\nAnd parking lots, driveways, on-ramps, strip malls.<br \/>\nLove not only what glimmers and is vast,<br \/>\nBut just as deeply our own darkling plain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objects in view: one set of sculpted cliffs, Venerated by the Wampanoags, Topped by a Yankee lighthouse whose clocklike beam Won the Paris Exposition prize, one Steaming sea stirred by an African storm, One red sunset, one skipping long-limbed child, My child, whose footprints the sea erases. Too much to say about all this, too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","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\/5764","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}