{"id":1650,"date":"2010-08-17T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2010-08-20T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:35:42","slug":"thoreau-on-ecopoetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/thoreau-on-ecopoetics\/","title":{"rendered":"thoreau on ecopoetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>The Journal<\/strong>, 1837-1861, Henry David Thoreau, page 9: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poem is drawn out from under the feet of the poet, his whole weight has rested on this ground. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Online sources like Wikiquote continue with the sentence &#8220;It has a logic more severe than the logician&#8217;s.&#8221; But I like better the mysterious sentence that follows in the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Z3_MNZnAMEYC&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&#038;cad=0#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">abridgement I am reading<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Its eccentric and unexplored orbit embraces the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is the orbit?<br \/>\nWhat is the system? <\/p>\n<p>Also love this amusing (though still mysteriously abridged) fragment from page 14: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Jan. 10.<\/em> A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare. Sometimes I read one which was written while the world went round, while grass grew and water ran. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did he consider that one healthy or not? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Journal, 1837-1861, Henry David Thoreau, page 9: The poem is drawn out from under the feet of the poet, his whole weight has rested on this ground. Online sources like Wikiquote continue&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecopoetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}