{"id":2303,"date":"2011-04-08T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2011-04-08T19:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:08:37","slug":"loveliest-of-trees-posted-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"Loveliest of Trees: Posted too Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eager beaver blogger that I was, I posted, long before I should have way back in cold January, a poem about cherry blossoms.\u00a0 One of the first I memorized, <a title=\"Loveliest of Trees\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=633\">&#8220;Loveliest of Trees the Cherry, Now&#8221;<\/a> by A.E. Housman, perfectly captures the almost unearthly beauty of cherry trees in full bloom.\u00a0 Further, the point of the poem is exactly the reality that people want more beauty, more blossoms, and want to keep them, see them, enjoy them longer.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link above and read this poem about cherry blossoms and about the shortness of life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good first poem for starting the memorizing habit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2304\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8609.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2304\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2304\" title=\"Does this view ever get old?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8609-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8609-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8609-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_8609.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking for excuses to publish more cherry blossom pictures<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eager beaver blogger that I was, I posted, long before I should have way back in cold January, a poem about cherry blossoms.\u00a0 One of the first I memorized, &#8220;Loveliest of Trees the Cherry, Now&#8221; by A.E. Housman, perfectly captures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2303\">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":[38,10],"tags":[287,219,55,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303"}],"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=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}