{"id":23945,"date":"2020-12-22T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/an-excerpt-of-christmas-trees-by-robert-frost#id28701"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:32:00","slug":"two-roads-diverged-in-a-snowy-wood-and-sorry-i-didnt-have-four-wheel-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/two-roads-diverged-in-a-snowy-wood-and-sorry-i-didnt-have-four-wheel-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Two roads diverged in a snowy wood, and sorry I didn\u2019t have four-wheel drive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a big collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/collections\/101692\/christmas-poems\">Christmas poems<\/a>, an excerpt of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/57834\/christmas-trees-56d23bb00debf\">&#8220;Christmas Trees&#8221; by Robert Frost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The city had withdrawn into itself<br \/>\nAnd left at last the country to the country;<br \/>\nWhen between whirls of snow not come to lie<br \/>\nAnd whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove<br \/>\nA stranger to our yard, who looked the city,<br \/>\nYet did in country fashion in that there<br \/>\nHe sat and waited till he drew us out<br \/>\nA-buttoning coats to ask him who he was.<br \/>\nHe proved to be the city come again<br \/>\nTo look for something it had left behind<br \/>\nAnd could not do without and keep its Christmas.<br \/>\nHe asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;<br \/>\nMy woods&mdash;the young fir balsams like a place<br \/>\nWhere houses all are churches and have spires.<br \/>\nI hadn&rsquo;t thought of them as Christmas Trees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other good stuff from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/53741\/christmas-1970\">Sandra Castillo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/42873\/christmas-eve-my-mother-dressing\">Toi Derricotte<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43426\/advent-56d2222b07ead\">Mary Jo Salter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/an-excerpt-of-christmas-trees-by-robert-frost\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    From a big collection of Christmas poems, an excerpt of &#8220;Christmas Trees&#8221; by Robert Frost.<\/p>\n<p>The city had withdrawn into itself<br \/>\nAnd left at last the country to the country;<br \/>\nWhen between whirls of snow not come to lie<br \/>\nAnd whirls of foliage&#8230;<\/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-23945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945","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=23945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23946,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945\/revisions\/23946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}