{"id":4162,"date":"2014-02-13T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhewnstones.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2014-02-13T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:27:34","slug":"caeli-errant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2014\/02\/13\/caeli-errant\/","title":{"rendered":"Caeli errant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"note\">With apologies to the psalmist.<\/p>\n<p>Each day tells its tale unto the next:<br \/>\nThe sun in jaunty setting shouts its benediction to the sky<br \/>\nLike a TV talk show host leaving the stage.<br \/>\nOne by one the sky announces stars<br \/>\nBut the twinkling stars forget their lines, and the moon, old nag<br \/>\nSpends half the night in prompting. Insouciant satellites streak<br \/>\nAcross the stage, and are removed. The audience<br \/>\nDoze, or check their phones. Before the dawn<br \/>\nThe constellations are confused, and reel half-lit<br \/>\nAbout the murky void, Orion and the Pleiades<br \/>\nDoing God knows what together in the West. Now Venus,<br \/>\nAlways eager, is up too early, and Jupiter demurely<br \/>\nHides his face behind a cloud. The night grows pale<br \/>\nAnd imparts what knowledge it recalls\u2014a whispered word,<br \/>\nThe echo of a gesture. Something about the truth?<br \/>\nNot much remains. The day, in any case<br \/>\nWill not believe a word of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to the psalmist. Each day tells its tale unto the next: The sun in jaunty setting shouts its benediction to the sky Like a TV talk show host leaving the stage. One by one the sky announces stars But the twinkling stars forget their lines, and the moon, old nag Spends half the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[252,293,336,352],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-158","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}