{"id":941,"date":"2011-04-12T02:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T02:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=941"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:26:12","slug":"hap-by-thomas-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/hap-by-thomas-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hap by Thomas Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hardy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-660 lazyload\" title=\"hardy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hardy-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hardy-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hardy-705x1024.jpg 705w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 206px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 206\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Hap<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n<p>If but some vengeful god would call to me<br \/>\nFrom up the sky, and laugh: &#8220;Thou suffering thing,<br \/>\nKnow that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,<br \/>\nThat thy love&#8217;s loss is my hate&#8217;s profiting!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die,<br \/>\nSteeled by the sense of ire unmerited;<br \/>\nHalf-eased in that a Powerfuller than I<br \/>\nHad willed and meted me the tears I shed.<\/p>\n<p>But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,<br \/>\nAnd why unblooms the best hope ever sown?<br \/>\n&#8211; Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,<br \/>\nAnd dicing Time for gladness casts a moan . . .<br \/>\nThese purblind Doomsters had as readily strown<br \/>\nBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.<\/p>\n<p>1866.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hap by Thomas Hardy If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: &#8220;Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love&#8217;s loss is my hate&#8217;s profiting!&#8221; Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased in&#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":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}