{"id":35832,"date":"2017-08-05T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35832"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:00:19","slug":"just-delicate-needles-by-rolf-jacobsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/just-delicate-needles-by-rolf-jacobsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Delicate Needles, by Rolf Jacobsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just delicate needles, the light,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in an endless night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Never doubt that the Sower is just;<\/p>\n<p>despite the young rain of tears, so delicate,<\/p>\n<p>that fall on the thistle head&#8217;s drowsing needles.<\/p>\n<p>When pricked, slowly bend your hands away like the<\/p>\n<p>Sunflower or the chrysanthemum bending to the light.<\/p>\n<p>Open your heart, but do not allow the evil to come in.<\/p>\n<p>There will be calm hands there, and an<\/p>\n<p>eternally comforting sleep there, and there will be endless<\/p>\n<p>seeds of fire bursting in the night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just delicate needles, the light, in an endless night. Never doubt that the Sower is just; despite the young rain of tears, so delicate, that fall on the thistle head&#8217;s drowsing needles. When pricked, slowly bend your hands away like the Sunflower or the chrysanthemum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36379,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832\/revisions\/36379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}