{"id":748,"date":"2015-11-24T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=748"},"modified":"2016-02-17T18:24:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:24:01","slug":"worms-by-carl-dennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2015\/11\/24\/worms-by-carl-dennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Worms by Carl Dennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this Thanksgiving, take a few moments to feel the nature of thankfulness. As\u00a0thoughts arise &#8211; <em>What am I thankful for? Whom am I indebted to? Which of the gifts I have received have been larger, which smaller?<\/em> &#8211; just let the thoughts run dry. Experience gratitude just for itself, because its there, because you can.<\/p>\n<p>The poem\u00a0<em>Worms<\/em>, by Carl Dennis, is a sweet reminder that\u00a0the opportunities to give thanks are boundless. Have a happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>WORMS by Carl Dennis<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Aren&#8217;t you glad at least that the earthworms<\/div>\n<div>Under the grass are ignorant, as they eat the earth,<\/div>\n<div>Of the good they confer on us, that their silence<\/div>\n<div>Isn&#8217;t a silent reproof for our bad manners,<\/div>\n<div>Our never casting earthward a crumb of thanks<\/div>\n<div>For their keeping the soil from packing so tight<\/div>\n<div>That no root, however determined, could pierce it?<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poem\/31047\">(more &#8230;)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Thanksgiving, take a few moments to feel the nature of thankfulness. As\u00a0thoughts arise &#8211; What am I thankful for? Whom am I indebted to? Which of the gifts I have received have been larger, which smaller? &#8211; just let the thoughts run dry. Experience gratitude just for itself, because its there, because you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,32],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gratitude","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}