{"id":7687,"date":"2015-12-21T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2015-12-21T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:56:01","slug":"after-a-fall-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7687","title":{"rendered":"After a fall of snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of this shortest\u00a0day, this longest night of the year, a poem by May Sarton, and a chair in the National Cathedral Bishop\u2019s Garden, painted during a snowier winter than this one looks to be.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChairInSnow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7690\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChairInSnow1.jpg\" alt=\"ChairInSnow\" width=\"450\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChairInSnow1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChairInSnow1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Before going to bed<br \/>\nAfter a fall of snow<br \/>\nI look out on the field<br \/>\nShining there in the moonlight<br \/>\nSo calm, untouched and white<br \/>\nSnow silence fills my head<br \/>\nAfter I leave the window.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later near dawn<br \/>\nWhen I look down again<br \/>\nThe whole landscape has changed<br \/>\nThe perfect surface gone<br \/>\nCriss-crossed and written on<br \/>\nWhere the wild creatures ranged<br \/>\nWhile the moon rose and shone.<\/p>\n<p>Why did my dog not bark?<br \/>\nWhy did I hear no sound<br \/>\nThere on the snow-locked ground<br \/>\nIn the tumultuous dark?<\/p>\n<p>How much can come, how much can go<br \/>\nWhen the December moon is bright,<br \/>\nWhat worlds of play we\u2019ll never know<br \/>\nSleeping away the cold white night<br \/>\nAfter a fall of snow.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014May Sarton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of this shortest\u00a0day, this longest night of the year, a poem by May Sarton, and a chair in the National Cathedral Bishop\u2019s Garden, painted during a snowier winter than this one looks to be. Before going to bed After a fall of snow I look out on the field Shining there in the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7687\">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":[64],"tags":[47,23,73,61,19,18],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-dc","tag-festival","tag-garden","tag-oil","tag-poem","tag-winter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","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=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7693,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}