{"id":5317,"date":"2013-05-15T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2013-05-15T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:16:08","slug":"comes-a-day-born-of-the-gentle-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5317","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Comes a Day Born of the Gentle South&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After dark vapors have oppress&#8217;d our plains<br \/>\n<br \/>For a long dreary season, comes a day<br \/>\n<br \/>Born of the gentle South, and clears away<br \/>\n<br \/>From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.<br \/>\n<br \/>The anxious month, relieved of its pains,<br \/>\n<br \/>    Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May;<br \/>\n<br \/>    The eyelids with the passing coolness play<br \/>\n<br \/>Like rose leaves with the drip of Summer rains.<br \/>\n<br \/>The calmest thoughts came round us; as of leaves<br \/>\n<br \/>    Budding\u2014fruit ripening in stillness\u2014Autumn suns<br \/>\n<br \/>Smiling at eve upon the quiet sheaves\u2014<br \/>\n<br \/>Sweet Sappho&#8217;s cheek\u2014a smiling infant&#8217;s breath\u2014<br \/>\n<br \/>    The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs\u2014<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/22832#sthash.0VW3iovQ.dpuf\">A woodland rivulet\u2014a Poet&#8217;s death.&#8221;<\/a> \u2014 Keats<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tanwei\/2584637520\/\" title=\"rose by TanWei, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3102\/2584637520_b0520789c3_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"rose\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After dark vapors have oppress&#8217;d our plains For a long dreary season, comes a day Born of the gentle South, and clears away From the sick heavens all unseemly stains. The anxious month, relieved of its pains, Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May; The eyelids with the passing coolness play Like rose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;Comes a Day Born of the Gentle South&quot;<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}