{"id":1405,"date":"2011-08-28T14:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:21:22","slug":"the-ant-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/the-ant-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ant-Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nHis dusty body goes backwards to be dust.\r\nOn dust more frictionless than ice\r\nA frantic slipping ant will make us wince\r\nTo see a crucible mind no more than claw;\r\nA mind that harbors no dark thought to appall\r\nBut shapes his perpetual falling wall.\r\nHe does not jump for justice or to be just.\r\n\r\nSummer's first rain-drop rolls in dust a world\r\nWhose wet invites all wetness hints of growth\r\n(Such a world may we recognize in drought).\r\nSilent and dry, he emerges like a roar\r\nAnd makes the molten tension burst,\r\nAnd drowns himself with water, nothing more.\r\nAnd a something unrepeatable is learned.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His dusty body goes backwards to be dust. On dust more frictionless than ice A frantic slipping ant will make us wince To see a crucible mind no more than claw; A mind that harbors no dark thought to appall But shapes his perpetual falling wall. He does not jump for justice or to be <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/the-ant-lion\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102],"tags":[501,499,1696,498,1695,799,500],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sonnets","tag-ant-lion","tag-dust-on-dust","tag-evolution","tag-first-rain","tag-insects","tag-nature","tag-rain-drop","category-1102-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}