{"id":1209,"date":"1991-09-07T22:27:56","date_gmt":"1991-09-08T05:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2012-10-24T22:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T05:29:06","slug":"set-this-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1991\/09\/07\/set-this-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Set this down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set this down, this foot upon land,<br \/>\nthat I may be led to wander,<br \/>\nthat I may be.<\/p>\n<p>I have no more set my foot<br \/>\nIn this land,<br \/>\nThan I have set my heart in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I would die.<\/p>\n<p>But for the flowers,<br \/>\noceans, the seas;<br \/>\nThe love of nature.<\/p>\n<p>The nature that is all beings.<br \/>\nThe nature that is the self.<\/p>\n<p>This I have seen.<br \/>\nThis I am.<\/p>\n<p>I have not wandered upon this land,<br \/>\nThough my heart has foundered upon<br \/>\nThe edge of this world.<br \/>\nThis continent.<br \/>\nThis universe.<\/p>\n<p>Longing for other universes, I<br \/>\nhave wandered over sky and sea,<br \/>\nO&#8217;er plains,<br \/>\nfields,<br \/>\nYet I have not wandered.<br \/>\nI have stumbled.<\/p>\n<p>Only by chance do I stumble<br \/>\nhere,<\/p>\n<p>where a tree stands, and<br \/>\nthe hills roll gently into<br \/>\na distance.<\/p>\n<p>Only by chance, do these things mean anything<br \/>\nto me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set this down, this foot upon land,<br \/> that I may be led to wander,<br \/> that I may be.<\/p>\n<p>I have no more set my foot<br \/> In this land,<br \/> Than I have set my heart in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I would die.<\/p>\n<p>But for the flowers,<br \/> oceans, the seas;<br \/> The love of nature.<\/p>\n<p>The nature that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-nature","category-oceans","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","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=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}