{"id":75,"date":"2009-01-11T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-01-19T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T21:05:33","slug":"as-freedom-is-a-breakfast-food-ee-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"as freedom is a breakfast food &#8211; E.E. Cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:breakfastfood.mp3] (2:30)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">read by E.E. Cummings.  audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poetry-Speaks-Expanded-Poets-Tennyson\/dp\/1402210620\" target=\"blank\">Poetry Speaks: Expanded<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>as freedom is a breakfastfood<br \/>\nor truth can live with right and wrong<br \/>\nor molehills are from mountains made<br \/>\n&#8211;long enough and just so long<br \/>\nwill being pay the rent of seem<br \/>\nand genius please the talentgang<br \/>\nand water most encourage flame<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->as hatracks into peachtrees grow<br \/>\nor hopes dance best on bald men&#8217;s hair<br \/>\nand every finger is a toe<br \/>\nand any courage is a fear<br \/>\n&#8211;long enough and just so long<br \/>\nwill the impure think all things pure<br \/>\nand hornets wail by children stung<\/p>\n<p>or as the seeing are the blind<br \/>\nand robins never welcome spring<br \/>\nnor flatfolk prove their world is round<br \/>\nnor dingsters die at break of dong<br \/>\nand common&#8217;s rare and millstones float<br \/>\n&#8211;long enough and just so long<br \/>\ntomorrow will not be too late<\/p>\n<p>worms are the words but joy&#8217;s the voice<br \/>\ndown shall go which and up come who<br \/>\nbreasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs<br \/>\ndeeds cannot dream what dreams can do<br \/>\n&#8211;time is a tree(this life one leaf)<br \/>\nbut love is the sky and i am for you<br \/>\njust so long and long enough<\/p>\n<p>(1940)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:breakfastfood.mp3] (2:30) read by E.E. Cummings. audio from Poetry Speaks: Expanded. as freedom is a breakfastfood or truth can live with right and wrong or molehills are from mountains made &#8211;long enough and just so long will being pay the rent of seem and genius please the talentgang and water most encourage flame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-thighs-will-be-thighs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}