{"id":106,"date":"2004-02-14T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?p=106"},"modified":"2005-03-14T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T15:02:10","slug":"bland-repose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2004\/02\/14\/bland-repose\/","title":{"rendered":"Bland repose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOn certain days, amid the wandering refrains, the vague and fleeting impressions, and half-formed conversations I carry on with my inner self that constitute the majority my brain&#8217;s activity, a <em>color<\/em> will creep and leave its humor in everything I think and dream.  Today is an orange day.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"orange\" cite=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.net\/etext05\/7spoe10.txt\">\n<h3 class=\"poemtitle\">TO F&#8212;<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"byline\">By Edgar Allen Poe<\/h4>\n<p class=\"stanza\">\n<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Beloved!<\/span> amid the earnest woes<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;That crowd around my earthly path<br \/>\n(Drear path, alas! where grows<br \/>\nNot even one lonely rose),<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;My soul at least a solace hath<br \/>\nIn dreams of thee, and therein knows<br \/>\nAn Eden of bland repose.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"stanza\">\nAnd thus thy memory is to me<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;Like some enchanted far-off isle<br \/>\nIn some tumultuous sea,&#8212;<br \/>\nSome ocean throbbing far and free<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;With storms, but where meanwhile<br \/>\nSerenest skies continually<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;Just o&#8217;er that one bright island smile.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: Beth Orton, <i>Sweetest Decline<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On certain days, amid the wandering refrains, the vague and fleeting impressions, and half-formed conversations I carry on with my inner self that constitute the majority my brain&#8217;s activity, a color will creep and leave its humor in everything I think and dream. Today is an orange day. TO F&#8212; By Edgar Allen Poe Beloved! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}