{"id":6014,"date":"2010-10-11T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2011-05-14T21:49:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T21:49:53","slug":"october-villanelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6014","title":{"rendered":"October Villanelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is autumn the one true season of life?<br \/>\n(Or must a long cold winter follow fall?)<br \/>\nOctober paints with fragile colors rife<\/p>\n<p>the early twilights, and with black, the nights of strife,<br \/>\nwhen a suffering wind repeats the call:<br \/>\n&#8220;Is autumn the one true season of life?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sweet roots and crisp apples under the knife<br \/>\nyield scented juices that summer sun recall.<br \/>\nOctober paints with fragile colors rife.<\/p>\n<p>With thoughts of fledgling days the small<br \/>\nbirds huddle tight as husband clings to wife.<br \/>\nIs autumn the one true season of life?<\/p>\n<p>It is the soft wind whistling like a fife<br \/>\nthat spins the dancing leaves, holds them in thrall.<br \/>\nOctober paints with fragile colors rife.<\/p>\n<p>The vein to the past was cut with a knife.<br \/>\nThe days drop like leaves, and ripeness is all.<br \/>\nOctober paints with fragile colors rife.<br \/>\nIs autumn the one true season of life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is autumn the one true season of life? (Or must a long cold winter follow fall?) October paints with fragile colors rife the early twilights, and with black, the nights of strife, when a suffering wind repeats the call: &#8220;Is autumn the one true season of life?&#8221; Sweet roots and crisp apples under the knife [&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-6014","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\/6014","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=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}