{"id":48,"date":"2010-09-18T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-09-18T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T05:45:00","slug":"a-suitable-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"A Suitable Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:small;\"> <\/p>\n<div>(for Jane, on her 50th)<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Life&#8217;s difficult path makes us travel<br \/>Between the weight of woes and insensate matter.<br \/>Upon reality&#8217;s anvil spirits become gravel<br \/>While pressing cares many souls will shatter.<\/p>\n<p>A maddening task, to navigate betwixt the two<br \/>And not merely survive, but truly live,<br \/>For too sane a view washes the colors flat,<br \/>Erasing the beauty that life would give.<\/p>\n<p>The sparkling light in the cup of Bacchus<br \/>Reflects the wild awe of nature&#8217;s secret.<br \/>To capture that ineffable mystery &#8212; Impossible!<br \/>Yet dancers catch and release art and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>So dance in the sea of troubles,<br \/>Splash folly in the face of care,<br \/>Laugh at the hammer of worry,<br \/>Soar joyfully into the air.<\/p>\n<p>A love is needed not quite rational<br \/>To write, to draw, to love &#8212; to create &#8212;<br \/>Poised between what might be and the actual,<br \/>Helping others move from gray to the infinite.<\/p>\n<p>A natural madness is a delicate balance,<br \/>Neither overburden&#8217;d, nor oversane,<br \/>Seeking wonder at the borderlands,<br \/>Bringing home beauty back to us again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for Jane, on her 50th) Life&#8217;s difficult path makes us travelBetween the weight of woes and insensate matter.Upon reality&#8217;s anvil spirits become gravelWhile pressing cares many souls will shatter. A maddening task, to navigate betwixt the twoAnd not merely survive, but truly live,For too sane a view washes the colors flat,Erasing the beauty that life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Suitable Balance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}