{"id":2502,"date":"2011-02-05T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2011-02-05T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T17:03:17","slug":"the-swimming-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-swimming-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swimming Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Swimming Lesson<\/em><\/p>\n<div>Feeling the icy kick, the endless waves<\/div>\n<div>Reaching around my life, I moved my arms<\/div>\n<div>And coughed, and in the end saw land.<\/div>\n<div>Somebody, I suppose,<\/div>\n<div>Remembering that medieval maxim,<\/div>\n<div>Had tossed me in,<\/div>\n<div>Had wanted me to learn to swim,<\/div>\n<div>Not knowing that none of us, who ever came back<\/div>\n<div>From that long lonely fall and frenzied rising,<\/div>\n<div>Ever learned anything at all<\/div>\n<div>About swimming, but only<\/div>\n<div>How to put off, one by one,<\/div>\n<div>Dreams and pity, love and grace,-<\/div>\n<div>How to survive in any place.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>&#8211; Mary Oliver<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swimming Lesson Feeling the icy kick, the endless waves Reaching around my life, I moved my arms And coughed, and in the end saw land. Somebody, I suppose, Remembering that medieval maxim, Had tossed me in, Had wanted me to learn to swim, Not knowing that none of us, who ever came back From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-swimming-lesson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Swimming Lesson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thievery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}