{"id":2409,"date":"2013-06-28T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:53:00","slug":"when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer\/","title":{"rendered":"When I heard the Learn&#8217;d Astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Walt Whitman<\/p>\n<p>When I heard the learn\u2019d astronomer;<br \/>\nWhen the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;<br \/>\nWhen I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;<br \/>\nWhen I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,<br \/>\nHow soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;<br \/>\nTill rising and gliding out, I wander\u2019d off by myself,<br \/>\nIn the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,<br \/>\nLook\u2019d up in perfect silence at the stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on June 23. 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal; background-color: #ffffff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Walt Whitman When I heard the learn\u2019d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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\/2409"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}