{"id":583,"date":"2010-06-30T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:12:04","slug":"drinking-alone-in-the-moonlight-by-li-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/drinking-alone-in-the-moonlight-by-li-po\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking Alone in the Moonlight by Li Po"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LiBai.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-584 lazyload\" title=\"LiBai\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LiBai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"340\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LiBai.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LiBai-174x300.jpg 174w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 198px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 198\/340;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Drinking Alone in the Moonlight<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Li Po (or Li Bai)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under the flowering trees, with a bottle of wine,<br \/>\nI drink alone, for no friend is near.<br \/>\nRaising my cup I call the bright moon,<br \/>\nFor he, with my shadow, make us three.<br \/>\nThe moon is no drinker of wine;<br \/>\nListless, my shadow only follows me.<br \/>\nWith the moon and shadow as friends<br \/>\nWe are joyful in the late Spring night.<br \/>\nI sing my songs to the moon and she dances in beams;<br \/>\nIn the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks.<br \/>\nWhile we were sober, three shared the fun;<br \/>\nNow we are drunk, each goes his way.<br \/>\nMay we long share our odd, inanimate feast,<br \/>\nAnd meet again at last on in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking Alone in the Moonlight by Li Po (or Li Bai) Under the flowering trees, with a bottle of wine, I drink alone, for no friend is near. Raising my cup I call the bright moon, For he, with my shadow, make us three. The moon is no drinker of wine; Listless, my shadow only&#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":[319,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moon-poem","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}