{"id":715,"date":"2006-11-02T17:48:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=715"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:01:23","slug":"not-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/not-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Not writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t. Feeling low. Browsing through <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/36neFMO\"><em>The Portable Romantic Poets <\/em><\/a> (blogged before about the book <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/the-portable-romantic-poets\/\">here<\/a>) looking for something mournful enough to match my mood. This can&#8217;t be healthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the self-consumer of my woes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am the self-consumer of my woes,<br \/>\nThey rise and vanish in oblivious host,<br \/>\nLike shades in love and death&#8217;s oblivion lost;<br \/>\nAnd yet I am, and live &#8211; like vapors tossed<\/p>\n<p>Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,<br \/>\nInto the living sea of waking dreams . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-books.com\/Classics\/Poetry\/Anthology\/Clare\/Iam.htm\"><em>I Am<\/em> by John Clare<\/a>, which would be a bit much here, copied over in full, even in my mood. A fragment&#8217;s enough.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s a new day. I wish it were spring, though, instead of November.<\/p>\n<p>I wish, I wish, I wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t. Feeling low. Browsing through The Portable Romantic Poets (blogged before about the book here) looking for something mournful enough to match my mood. This can&#8217;t be healthy. &#8220;I am the self-consumer of my woes.&#8221; I am the self-consumer of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/not-writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[737,803,1521,1522,241],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-writing","tag-book-review","tag-poetry","tag-romanticism","tag-the-portable-romantic-poets","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}