{"id":707,"date":"2010-10-19T02:58:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=707"},"modified":"2010-10-19T02:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T02:58:50","slug":"the-only-ghost-i-ever-saw-by-emily-dickinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-only-ghost-i-ever-saw-by-emily-dickinson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Ghost I Ever Saw by Emily Dickinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Black-white_photograph_of_Emily_Dickinson2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56 lazyload\" title=\"Black-white_photograph_of_Emily_Dickinson2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Black-white_photograph_of_Emily_Dickinson2-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Black-white_photograph_of_Emily_Dickinson2-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Black-white_photograph_of_Emily_Dickinson2.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 252px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 252\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Only Ghost I Ever Saw<\/p>\n<p>by Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n<p>The only ghost I ever saw<br \/>\nWas dressed in mechlin, ? so;<br \/>\nHe wore no sandal on his foot,<br \/>\nAnd stepped like flakes of snow.<br \/>\nHis gait was soundless, like the bird,<br \/>\nBut rapid, like the roe;<br \/>\nHis fashions quaint, mosaic,<br \/>\nOr, haply, mistletoe.<br \/>\nHis conversation seldom,<br \/>\nHis laughter like the breeze<br \/>\nThat dies away in dimples<br \/>\nAmong the pensive trees.<br \/>\nOur interview was transient,?<br \/>\nOf me, himself was shy;<br \/>\nAnd God forbid I look behind<br \/>\nSince that appalling day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Only Ghost I Ever Saw by Emily Dickinson The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, ? so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the bird, But rapid, like the roe; His fashions quaint, mosaic, Or, haply, mistletoe. His conversation&#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":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-dickinson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}