{"id":846,"date":"2011-06-30T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2011-06-30T13:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:56:27","slug":"the-oven-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/the-oven-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oven-Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Frost<\/p>\n<p>There is a singer everyone has heard,<br \/>\nLoud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,<br \/>\nWho makes the solid tree trunks sound again.<br \/>\nHe says that leaves are old and that for flowers<br \/>\nMid-summer is to spring as one to ten.<br \/>\nHe says the early petal-fall is past<br \/>\nWhen pear and cherry bloom went down in showers<br \/>\nOn sunny days a moment overcast;<br \/>\nAnd comes that other fall we name the fall.<br \/>\nHe says the highway dust is over all.<br \/>\nThe bird would cease and be as other birds<br \/>\nBut that he knows in singing not to sing.<br \/>\nThe question that he frames in all but words<br \/>\nIs what to make of a diminished thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read by Kathleen at St. Lydia&#8217;s on June 26<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Frost There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom [&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\/846"}],"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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}