{"id":23071,"date":"2020-11-06T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/to-be-of-use#id28277"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:22:00","slug":"to-be-with-people-who-submerge-in-the-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/to-be-with-people-who-submerge-in-the-task\/","title":{"rendered":"To be with people who submerge in the task."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Marge Piercy&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/57673\/to-be-of-use\">&#8220;To be of use.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The people I love the best<br \/>\njump into work head first<br \/>\nwithout dallying in the shallows<br \/>\nand swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.<br \/>\nThey seem to become natives of that element,<br \/>\nthe black sleek heads of seals<br \/>\nbouncing like half-submerged balls.<\/p>\n<p>I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,<br \/>\nwho pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,<br \/>\nwho strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,<br \/>\nwho do what has to be done, again and again.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be with people who submerge<br \/>\nin the task, who go into the fields to harvest<br \/>\nand work in a row and pass the bags along,<br \/>\nwho are not parlor generals and field deserters<br \/>\nbut move in a common rhythm<br \/>\nwhen the food must come in or the fire be put out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/to-be-of-use\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Marge Piercy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/57673\/to-be-of-use\">&#8220;To be of use.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The people I love the best<br \/>\njump into work head first<br \/>\nwithout dallying in the shallows<br \/>\nand swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.<br \/>\nThey seem to become natives of that element,<br \/>\nthe black sleek heads of seals<br \/>\nbouncing like half-submerged balls.<\/p>\n<p>I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,<br \/>\nwho pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,<br \/>\nwho strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,<br \/>\nwho do what has to be done, again and again.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be with people who submerge<br \/>\nin the task, who go into the fields to harvest<br \/>\nand work in a row and pass the bags along,<br \/>\nwho are not parlor generals and field deserters<br \/>\nbut move in a common rhythm<br \/>\nwhen the food must come in or the fire be put out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/to-be-of-use\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23072,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions\/23072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}