{"id":31858,"date":"2022-10-18T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/a-poem-good-for-nearly-any-age#id32379"},"modified":"2022-10-18T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:24:00","slug":"a-poem-good-for-nearly-any-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-poem-good-for-nearly-any-age\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem good for nearly any age."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem from the point of view of someone who&#39;s been around for a while, that still feels relevant to anybody who&#39;s seen a bit: <a href=\"https:\/\/poems.com\/poem\/the-wonder-of-having-lived-here-a-long-time\/?e=715441b5019ccd23972a18e0e5f4c72c3dcb10db491a7f7c7de2a2d0a204459e\">&#8220;The Wonder of Having Lived Here a Long Time&#8221; by John Koethe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;It feels like such a miracle, this life&rdquo;&mdash;I wrote that in a poem<br \/>\nSix years ago and I repeat it now. I&rsquo;ve no idea what other people feel<br \/>\nAs they get old, but I feel nothing but amazement, not at what I am,<br \/>\nWhich is commonplace and ordinary, but that I am and have a life at all,<br \/>\nThe private one of these appearances beyond the reach of physics.<br \/>\nThough they take the form of time, they&rsquo;re really nothing but myself,<br \/>\nThe pages of a narrative that led the way from childhood to here<br \/>\nThat no one gets to read unless they want to, pausing to look in the window<br \/>\nOf the joke shop on Broadway on the way to the library, or the one on F Street<br \/>\nNext door to the Hollywood Burlesque. Not to mention Tempest Storm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/a-poem-good-for-nearly-any-age\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem from the point of view of someone who&#8217;s been around for a while, that still feels relevant to anybody who&#8217;s seen a bit: <a href=\"https:\/\/poems.com\/poem\/the-wonder-of-having-lived-here-a-long-time\/?e=715441b5019ccd23972a18e0e5f4c72c3dcb10db491a7f7c7de2a2d0a204459e\">&#8220;The Wonder of Having Lived Here a Long Time&#8221; by John Koethe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like such a miracle, this life\u201d\u2014I wrote that in a poem<br \/>\nSix years ago and I repeat it now. I\u2019ve no idea what other people feel<br \/>\nAs they get old, but I feel nothing but amazement, not at what I am,<br \/>\nWhich is commonplace and ordinary, but that I am and have a life at all,<br \/>\nThe private one of these appearances beyond the reach of physics.<br \/>\nThough they take the form of time, they\u2019re really nothing but myself,<br \/>\nThe pages of a narrative that led the way from childhood to here<br \/>\nThat no one gets to read unless they want to, pausing to look in the window<br \/>\nOf the joke shop on Broadway on the way to the library, or the one on F Street<br \/>\nNext door to the Hollywood Burlesque. Not to mention Tempest Storm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/a-poem-good-for-nearly-any-age\">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-31858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858","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=31858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31859,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858\/revisions\/31859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}