{"id":19,"date":"2013-09-24T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2014-01-27T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T22:26:05","slug":"19-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 after Issa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s enough just to sit and meditate, heedless<br \/>\nof the needs of others close to us and of<br \/>\ntheir perpetual demands that seem to sap the<br \/>\nstrength from us.\u00a0 My doorway and the morning dew<br \/>\nare all I need to make my day, and that<br \/>\nis where I&#8217;ll plan to be.\u00a0 And if that marks<br \/>\nme misanthropic, if that threatens to end our<br \/>\nrelationship, I say that is not my problem, closing<br \/>\nmy door.\u00a0 Thoreau knew how to spend the day<br \/>\nalone with his peas and beans and ledgers, and we<br \/>\ncan do the same.\u00a0 So much for the ties that bind.<br \/>\n&#8220;We must find our occasions in ourselves,&#8221;<br \/>\nsaid self-reliant Thoreau.\u00a0 And so I&#8217;m going to sing to<br \/>\nmyself.\u00a0 And the birds.\u00a0 And you.\u00a0 And one or two others.<\/p>\n<p><em>note:\u00a0 the last words of each line, read vertically top to bottom, form a haiku by Issa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 after Issa I think it&#8217;s enough just to sit and meditate, heedless of the needs of others close to us and of their perpetual demands that seem to sap the strength from us.\u00a0 My doorway and the morning dew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/wallace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}