{"id":164,"date":"1985-09-23T02:59:19","date_gmt":"1985-09-23T09:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:11:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:11:51","slug":"stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/23\/stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon a solid stone do I sit.<br \/>\nMy hand passes not through it,<br \/>\nNor my feeling penetrates this<br \/>\nSolid, stolid rock.<\/p>\n<p>What thought it is I cannot say,<br \/>\nThat makes this rock to<br \/>\nBe right here, at this<br \/>\nConjunction of time and place,<br \/>\nAnd condition suited for this rock&#8217;s efface<br \/>\nOn all the earth&#8217;s cold learning ground,<br \/>\nWhere many a rock may be found.<\/p>\n<p>And why this rock I am upon<br \/>\nIs here I cannot say,<br \/>\nI only know that this stone is long here to stay.<br \/>\nLong in the time that governs Earth;<br \/>\nLong has it been also.<\/p>\n<p>But within this rock is more than matter,<br \/>\nTo which geologist can relate.<br \/>\nInside this matter there is<br \/>\nConsciousness, (which theologist<br \/>\nMay debate):<br \/>\nFor Consciousness is only One Force,<br \/>\nAnd everywhere and anywhere can be found.<\/p>\n<p>Even in rocks on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon a solid stone do I sit.<br \/> My hand passes not through it,<br \/> Nor my feeling penetrates this<br \/> Solid, stolid rock.<\/p>\n<p>What thought it is I cannot say,<br \/> That makes this rock to<br \/> Be right here, at this<br \/> Conjunction of time and place,<br \/> And condition suited for this rock&#8217;s efface<br \/> On all [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}