{"id":14,"date":"2008-08-03T23:55:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-08-19T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T19:49:15","slug":"things-shouldnt-be-so-hard-kay-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Things Shouldn&#8217;t Be So Hard &#8211; Kay Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:sohard.mp3] (1:16)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">read by Kay Ryan.  audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/\" target=\"blank\">PBS NewsHour<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A life should leave<br \/>\ndeep tracks:<br \/>\nruts where she<br \/>\nwent out and back<br \/>\nto get the mail<br \/>\nor move the hose<br \/>\naround the yard;<br \/>\nwhere she used to<br \/>\nstand before the sink,<br \/>\na worn-out place;<br \/>\nbeneath her hand<br \/>\nthe china knobs<br \/>\nrubbed down to<br \/>\nwhite pastilles;<br \/>\nthe switch she<br \/>\nused to feel for<br \/>\nin the dark<br \/>\nalmost erased.<br \/>\nHer things should<br \/>\nkeep her marks.<br \/>\nThe passage<br \/>\nof a life should show;<br \/>\nit should abrade.<br \/>\nAnd when life stops,<br \/>\na certain space\u2014<br \/>\nhowever small\u2014<br \/>\nshould be left scarred<br \/>\nby the grand and<br \/>\ndamaging parade.<br \/>\nThings shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nbe so hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:sohard.mp3] (1:16) read by Kay Ryan. audio from PBS NewsHour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-the-dark-almost-erased"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}