{"id":22,"date":"2010-08-09T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-08-11T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T23:55:47","slug":"one-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/one-art\/","title":{"rendered":"One Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Elizabeth Bishop<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The art of losing isn&#8217;t hard to master;<br \/>\nSo many things seem filled with the intent<br \/>\nto be lost that their loss is no disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Lose something every day.\u00a0 Accept the fluster<br \/>\nof lost door key, the hour badly spent.<br \/>\nThe art of losing isn&#8217;t hard to master.<\/p>\n<p>Then practice losing farther, losing faster:<br \/>\nplaces, and names, and where it was you meant<br \/>\nto travel.\u00a0 None of these will bring disaster.<\/p>\n<p>I lost my mother&#8217;s watch.\u00a0 And look! my last, or<br \/>\nnext-to-last, of three loved houses went.<br \/>\nThe art of losing isn&#8217;t hard to master.<\/p>\n<p>I lost two cities, lovely ones.\u00a0 And, vaster,<br \/>\nsome realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.<br \/>\nI miss them, but it wasn&#8217;t a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture<br \/>\nI love) I shan&#8217;t have lied.\u00a0 It&#8217;s evident<br \/>\nthe art of losing&#8217;s not too hard to master<br \/>\nthough it may look like (<em>Write<\/em> it!) like disaster.<br \/>\n<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on August 8, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn&#8217;t hard to master; So many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day.\u00a0 Accept the fluster of lost door key, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn&#8217;t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}