{"id":3636,"date":"2017-09-07T21:43:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","slug":"there-is-an-ancient-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2017\/09\/07\/there-is-an-ancient-light\/","title":{"rendered":"There is an Ancient Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>that falls across the adobe wall<br \/>\nand the ladder leaning there.<br \/>\nIt takes most seriously<br \/>\nthe back rest of the wrought iron chair,<br \/>\nthe slender arch of its shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this light,<br \/>\nthe evening is at anchor<br \/>\nand whatever shape<br \/>\nthat cloud assumes<br \/>\nthat is the shape<br \/>\nI place here on this page<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u2014Marc Hudson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>from<\/em> East of Sorrow<em>, reprinted with permission<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that falls across the adobe wall and the ladder leaning there. It takes most seriously the back rest of the wrought iron chair, the slender arch of its shadow. Thanks to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news-and-notes"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/east-of-sorrow-1024x791.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}