{"id":270,"date":"2011-04-06T07:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2011-04-06T07:51:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:51:38","slug":"tell-me-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me A Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80%\" valign=\"top\">Tell Me a Story<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/w\/robert_penn_warren\/index.html\">Robert Penn Warren<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">[ A ]<\/p>\n<pre>Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood\r\nBy a dirt road, in first dark, and heard\r\nThe great geese hoot northward.\r\n\r\nI could not see them, there being no moon\r\nAnd the stars sparse.  I heard them.\r\n\r\nI did not know what was happening in my heart.\r\n\r\nIt was the season before the elderberry blooms,\r\nTherefore they were going north.\r\n\r\nThe sound was passing northward.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[ B ]<\/p>\n<pre>Tell me a story.\r\n\r\nIn this century, and moment, of mania,\r\nTell me a story.\r\n\r\nMake it a story of great distances, and starlight.\r\n\r\nThe name of the story will be Time,\r\nBut you must not pronounce its name.\r\n\r\nTell me a story of deep delight.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell Me a Story by Robert Penn Warren [ A ] Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard The great geese hoot northward. I could not see them, there being no moon And the stars sparse. I heard them. I did not know what was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}