{"id":1310,"date":"2019-01-17T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2019-01-17T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:48:59","slug":"pay-attention-be-astonished-tell-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2019\/01\/17\/pay-attention-be-astonished-tell-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay attention.\/Be astonished.\/Tell about it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-mary-oliver-dead-at-83-1.4982149\">Mary Oliver died today<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI learned about this in the morning. I&#8217;m home sick from work and I haven&#8217;t been able to get it out of my mind all day. I have found comfort in so much of her work while struggling with heartbreak and grief.<\/p>\n<p>I just copied &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/poetry\/180\/133.html\">The Summer Day<\/a>&#8221; into a notebook. Everyone quotes the last two lines: &#8220;Tell me, what is it you plan to do\/with your one wild and precious life?&#8221; which, when taken out of context, seems to be an uncomplicated call to action. Oliver tells us, in the same poem: &#8220;I do know [&#8230;] how to be idle and blessed&#8221; and challenges the reader, instead: &#8220;Tell me, what else should I have done?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the answer is <em>nothing<\/em>. How lucky we were to have shared the planet with this woman, who followed her own instructions on how to live life to a T: &#8220;Pay attention.\/Be astonished.\/Tell about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Oliver died today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}