{"id":35585,"date":"2013-04-17T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=35585"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:38:05","slug":"morning-eye-candy-sleeping-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/04\/around-the-garden\/morning-eye-candy-sleeping-in-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Sleeping In the Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bronx-river.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"35612\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/04\/around-the-garden\/morning-eye-candy-sleeping-in-the-forest\/attachment\/bronx-river\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bronx-river.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"392,580\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bronx-river\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bronx-river-202x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bronx-river.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35612\" alt=\"bronx-river\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bronx-river.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bronx-river.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bronx-river-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I thought the earth remembered me,<br \/>\nshe took me back so tenderly,<br \/>\narranging her dark skirts, her pockets<br \/>\nfull of lichens and seeds.<\/p>\n<p>I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,<br \/>\nnothing between me and the white fire of the stars<br \/>\nbut my thoughts, and they floated light as moths<br \/>\namong the branches of the perfect trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permacultureproject.com\/sleeping-in-the-forest-by-mary-oliver\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sleeping in the Forest<\/em><\/a> ~ Mary Oliver<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/265\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Oliver<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/maryoliver.beacon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">author&#8217;s site<\/a>) is a real star amongst those who love to combine nature, gardening, flowers, and poetry. She was <a href=\"http:\/\/nybg.tumblr.com\/post\/46507243163\/you-love-poets-and-we-know-it\" target=\"_blank\">suggested<\/a> both by the author of the Tumblr blog <a href=\"http:\/\/andsoshespins.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">And So She Spins &#8230;<\/a> and <a href=\"RE https:\/\/twitter.com\/bonnaire\/status\/319498165260783617 \" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/vbonnaire.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine Bonnaire<\/a>. Thank you for your suggestions!<\/p>\n<p>The Bronx River (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring in the Thain Family Forest meets &#8220;Sleeping in the Forest&#8221; a poem by Mary Oliver for National Poetry Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":35608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952],"tags":[1075,3154,1512,3153,1009,4634],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IVO0476.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-9fX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35585"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36078,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35585\/revisions\/36078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}