{"id":436,"date":"2011-11-07T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2018-06-26T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:47:11","slug":"sonnet-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size:small;\">(for Anne, on our 16th wedding anniversary)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The words, you say, are easy; numbers \u2013 no.<br \/>\nAnd yet your constant true addition makes<br \/>\nMultiply our joys. Your love me takes<br \/>\nTo planes and spheres where never words can go.<br \/>\nThough some reckon to grow their purse<br \/>\nBy calculating reasoned rates of return,<br \/>\nIf never I from you divide, I\u2019ll learn<br \/>\nThe mathematics of the universe.<br \/>\nFive thousand, eight hundred and forty-four days.<br \/>\nDo two become one? Or one made from twain?<br \/>\nTwo to the two to the two the powered refrain<br \/>\nMake half a billion seconds of love that stays.<br \/>\nNeither words nor figures may equate<br \/>\nThe blessed bliss of this, my married state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for Anne, on our 16th wedding anniversary) The words, you say, are easy; numbers \u2013 no. And yet your constant true addition makes Multiply our joys. Your love me takes To planes and spheres where never words can go. Though some reckon to grow their purse By calculating reasoned rates of return, If never I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sonnet&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}