{"id":25090,"date":"2016-11-10T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/?p=25090"},"modified":"2016-11-10T17:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:09:43","slug":"there-is-always-hope-for-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/?p=25090","title":{"rendered":"THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE FOR A NATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mountains smoke from the autumn<br \/>\nFires they stoke, and all the trees<br \/>\nHave ruby cheeks from the<br \/>\nGlow. I was going to the North<br \/>\nThrough the darkening forests of<br \/>\nEurope, rusting in the autumn,<br \/>\nRusty with cars, through villages<br \/>\nWithout sidewalks, like chasms; the<br \/>\nLong shadow of October<br \/>\nAlready dwells there. Along neural<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Pathways that pass through the valleys \u2013<br \/>\nIn the gray of highways and of<br \/>\nTrains and everything\u2019s wet with rain \u2013<br \/>\nThe metallic gulf stream<br \/>\nOf the traffic pulsates. The West is<br \/>\nLonely now the millennium<br \/>\nHas ended. What is sweeping away<br \/>\nThe clouds, the web of industry,<br \/>\nAnd blowing in from the fields<br \/>\nIs a womanly wind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/michelle-obama-t.jpg\" alt=\"michelle-obama-t\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/michelle-obama-t.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/michelle-obama-t-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/michelle-obama-t-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poem: Elly de Waard, from\u00a0<em>A wilderness of interconnections<\/p>\n<p><\/em>Vertaling: Wanda Boeke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mountains smoke from the autumn<br \/>\nFires they stoke, and all the trees<br \/>\nHave ruby cheeks from the<br \/>\nGlow. I was going to the North<br \/>\nThrough the darkening forests of<br \/>\nEurope, rusting in the autumn,<br \/>\nRusty with cars, through villages<br \/>\nWithout sidewalks, like chasms; the<br \/>\nLong shadow of October<br \/>\nAlready dwells there. Along neural<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algemeen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25101,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions\/25101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellydewaard.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}