Sitting down today to write my first non-work letter in a few weeks. \u00a0I’ve been enjoying poetry lately; here’s some Simon:<\/p>\n
A man walks down the street<\/em>
\nDusty street in a strange world<\/em>
\nMaybe it’s the Third World<\/em>
\nMaybe it’s his first time around<\/em>
\nHe doesn’t speak the language<\/em>
\nHe holds no currency<\/em>
\nHe is a foreign man<\/em>
\nHe is surrounded by the sound<\/em>
\nThe sound<\/em><\/a>
\nCattle in the marketplace<\/em>
\nScatterlings and orphanages<\/em>
\nHe looks around, around<\/em>
\nHe sees angels<\/a> in\u00a0the architecture<\/a><\/em>
\nSpinning in infinity<\/em>
\nHe says <\/em>Amen\u00a0and <\/em>Hallelujah!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sitting down today to write my first non-work letter in a few weeks. \u00a0I’ve been enjoying poetry lately; here’s some Simon: A man walks down the street Dusty street in a strange world Maybe it’s the Third World Maybe it’s his first time around He doesn’t speak the language He holds no currency He is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,216,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-fly-by-wire","category-indescribable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-WJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}