{"id":8057,"date":"2017-03-26T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8057"},"modified":"2017-03-26T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:04:00","slug":"loveliest-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8057","title":{"rendered":"Loveliest of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am experimenting with the eBay auction as a venue for my paintings, and I am beginning with \u201cCherry Blossoms,\u201d a seasonally appropriate work. It begins tonight and ends April 2nd. (You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/034-Cherry-Blossoms-034-oil-painting-by-Sheila-Harrington-\/222452735292?\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) And with this painting I include my favorite cherry blossom poem, from A. E. Housman\u2019s <i>A Shropshire Lad<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CherryBlossoms1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8054\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CherryBlossoms1.jpg\" alt=\"CherryBlossoms\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CherryBlossoms1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CherryBlossoms1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CherryBlossoms1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loveliest of trees, the cherry now<br \/>\nIs hung with bloom along the bough,<br \/>\nAnd stands about the woodland ride<br \/>\nWearing white for Eastertide.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of my threescore years and ten,<br \/>\nTwenty will not come again,<br \/>\nAnd take from seventy springs a score,<br \/>\nIt only leaves me fifty more.<\/p>\n<p>And since to look at things in bloom<br \/>\nFifty springs are little room,<br \/>\nAbout the woodlands I will go<br \/>\nTo see the cherry hung with snow.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013A.E. Housman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am experimenting with the eBay auction as a venue for my paintings, and I am beginning with \u201cCherry Blossoms,\u201d a seasonally appropriate work. It begins tonight and ends April 2nd. (You can find it here.) And with this painting I include my favorite cherry blossom poem, from A. E. Housman\u2019s A Shropshire Lad. Loveliest<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8057\">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":[76,61,19,52,77],"class_list":["post-8057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-flowers","tag-oil","tag-poem","tag-still-life","tag-trees"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057","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=8057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8060,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions\/8060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}