{"id":100,"date":"1985-05-23T09:03:13","date_gmt":"1985-05-23T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:15:59","slug":"speck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/05\/23\/speck\/","title":{"rendered":"Speck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the sea;<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis a fair wondrous<br \/>\nThing indeed<br \/>\nFor such as he,<br \/>\nWho cannot but marvel<br \/>\nAt its strange<br \/>\nIniquity,<br \/>\nNor fathom the<br \/>\nDepths of<br \/>\nCreation&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>I would repeat<br \/>\nTen thousand times<br \/>\n(And shall!)<br \/>\nThose words and<br \/>\nFeelings<br \/>\nInspired unto me.<\/p>\n<p>(And have!)<\/p>\n<p>Robbed is he<br \/>\nOf the very words<br \/>\nBy the sea&#8217;s immensity.<br \/>\nAnd the feeling<br \/>\nWhen the mind<br \/>\nIs on her and<br \/>\nAbout her:<br \/>\nTranquility.<\/p>\n<p>Take him!<\/p>\n<p>Beauty;<br \/>\nThough seeming grand<br \/>\nIt is not plenary:<br \/>\nIt is but eyeball deep.<\/p>\n<p>How immense or grand<br \/>\nCould this,<br \/>\nNot covering four-fifths<br \/>\nOf this billionth<br \/>\nPart of a<br \/>\nBillionth part<br \/>\nOf this<br \/>\nSpeck<br \/>\nAmong specks<br \/>\nIn the universe<br \/>\nBe?<\/p>\n<p>What does that make<br \/>\nHe?<br \/>\nWho knows not<br \/>\nThe true tranquility;<br \/>\nSees not real<br \/>\nBeauty;<br \/>\nKnows not the<br \/>\nVast immensity;<br \/>\nAll of which<br \/>\nHe is a part.<\/p>\n<p>Of which &#8211;<br \/>\nHe is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the sea;<br \/> &#8216;Tis a fair wondrous<br \/> Thing indeed<br \/> For such as he,<br \/> Who cannot but marvel<br \/> At its strange<br \/> Iniquity,<br \/> Nor fathom the<br \/> Depths of<br \/> Creation&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>I would repeat<br \/> Ten thousand times<br \/> (And shall!)<br \/> Those words and<br \/> Feelings<br \/> Inspired unto me.<\/p>\n<p>(And have!)<\/p>\n<p>Robbed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceans","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}