{"id":6119,"date":"2015-11-01T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:29","slug":"margaret-grieving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6119","title":{"rendered":"Margaret, grieving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Manley Hopkins said it best in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/173665\" target=\"_blank\">Spring and Fall: To a young child<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><em>M\u00e1rgar\u00e9t, \u00e1re you gr\u00edeving<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Over Goldengrove unleaving?<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>&#8230;It \u00eds the blight man was born for,<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><em>It is Margaret you mourn for.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>These words come to my mind so often, but most of all now. \u00a0This weekend, autumn is at its peak.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The green leaves have burst into their final flames, and will soon\u00a0float down\u00a0like cooled embers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The colors are stunning, surreal, painted across the weeping sky.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0And gone all too fast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0614.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0614.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0614\" width=\"650\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0614.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0614-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have made our internal sorrow a veil over the whole world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Day 118, and the poem was written in 1918. The closest I can get is a 1981 penny, found coated with green paint. A reversal of the numbers, just as the seasons will reverse.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Day-118-1981.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Day-118-1981-1024x611.jpg\" alt=\"Day 118 1981\" width=\"660\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Day-118-1981-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Day-118-1981-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Manley Hopkins said it best in\u00a0Spring and Fall: To a young child: M\u00e1rgar\u00e9t, \u00e1re you gr\u00edeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? &#8230;It \u00eds the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. These words come to my mind so often, but most of all now. \u00a0This weekend, autumn is at its peak. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6119\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Margaret, grieving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[434,23,399,176,400,436,435,437],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tress","tag-434","tag-23","tag-autumn","tag-fall","tag-leaves","tag-margaret","tag-poetry","tag-sorrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6124,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions\/6124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}