{"id":1316,"date":"2011-06-29T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2011-06-29T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:40:09","slug":"trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Joyce Kilmer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think that I shall never see<br \/>\nA poem lovely as a tree.<\/p>\n<p>A tree whose hungry mouth is prest<br \/>\nAgainst the earth&#8217;s sweet flowing breast;<\/p>\n<p>A tree that looks at God all day,<br \/>\nAnd lifts her leafy arms to pray;<\/p>\n<p>A tree that may in Summer wear<br \/>\nA nest of robins in her hair;<\/p>\n<p>Upon whose bosom snow has lain;<br \/>\nWho intimately lives with rain.<\/p>\n<p>Poems are made by fools like me,<br \/>\nBut only God can make a tree.<\/p>\n<div>(A related poem)<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Song of the Open Road<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Ogden Nash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I think that I shall never see<br \/>\nA billboard lovely as a tree<br \/>\nIndeed, unless the billboards fall<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never see a tree at all<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth&#8217;s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[146,55,32,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}