{"id":556,"date":"2010-06-16T01:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T01:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-06-16T01:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T01:10:22","slug":"to-wish-myself-courage-by-william-carlos-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-wish-myself-courage-by-william-carlos-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"To wish Myself Courage by William Carlos Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/writing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-557 lazyload\" title=\"writing\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/writing-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/writing-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/writing.jpg 386w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 238px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 238\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">William Carlos Williams (1883?1963)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">To wish Myself Courage<\/h2>\n<p>On the day when youth is no more upon me<br \/>\nI will write of the leaves and the moon in a tree top!<br \/>\nI will sing then the song, long in the making?<br \/>\nWhen the stress of youth is put away from me.<br \/>\nHow can I ever be written out as men say?<br \/>\nSurely it is merely an interference with the long song?<br \/>\nThis that I am now doing.<br \/>\nBut when the spring of it is worn like the old moon<br \/>\nAnd the eaten leaves are lace upon the cold earth?<br \/>\nThen I will rise up in my great desire?<br \/>\nLong at the birth?and sing me the youth-song!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Carlos Williams (1883?1963) To wish Myself Courage On the day when youth is no more upon me I will write of the leaves and the moon in a tree top! I will sing then the song, long in the making? When the stress of youth is put away from me. How can I ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1900s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}