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<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nDaughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
\nMuffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
\nAnd marching single in an endless file,
\nBring diadems and fagots in their hands.
\nTo each they offer gifts after his will,
\nBread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
\nI, in my pleach\u00e8d garden, watched the pomp,
\nForgot my morning wishes, hastily
\nTook a few herbs and apples, and the Day
\nTurned and departed silent. I, too late,
\nUnder her solemn fillet saw the scorn.<\/p>\n
\u2014Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p>\n Today is the birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883), and in his honor I post this poem, along with a painting of two apples… my modest selection from the options of bread, kingdom, stars, and sky. Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file,Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,39,61,19,52],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-birthday","tag-food","tag-oil","tag-poem","tag-still-life"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Ellen<\/p>\n<\/a>Jeannie<\/p>\n<\/a>Rosemary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"