{"id":24,"date":"2006-08-08T00:37:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-08-08T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T04:37:09","slug":"unprepared-knowledge-of-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2006\/08\/08\/unprepared-knowledge-of-ourselves.html","title":{"rendered":"unprepared knowledge of ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAlone with our madness and favorite flower<br \/>\nWe see that there really is nothing left to write about.<br \/>\nOr rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things<br \/>\nIn the same way, repeating the same thing over and over<br \/>\nFor love to continue to be gradually different.<\/p>\n<p>Beehives and ants have to be reexamined eternally<br \/>\nAnd the color of the day put in<br \/>\nHundreds of times and varied from summer to winter<br \/>\nFor it to get slowed down to the pace of an authentic<br \/>\nSaraband and huddle there, alive and resting.<\/p>\n<p>Only then can the chronic inattention<br \/>\nOf our lives drape itself around us, conciliatory<br \/>\nAnd with one eye on those long tan plush shadows<br \/>\nThat speak so deeply into our unprepared knowledge<br \/>\nOf ourselves, the talking engines of our days<\/p>\n<p><cite>Late Echo, by John Ashbery<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAlone with our madness and favorite flower<br \/>\nWe see that there really is nothing left to write about.<br \/>\n&#8211; John Ashbery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passages","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}