{"id":19973,"date":"2026-04-05T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19973"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:47:21","slug":"and-im-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/and-im-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And I&#8217;m Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"452\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/k09-04-24-75-e1364337744562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/k09-04-24-75-e1364337744562.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/k09-04-24-75-e1364337744562-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/k09-04-24-75-e1364337744562-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>hen in April the sweet showers fall<br>And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all<br>The veins are bathed in liquor of such power<br>As brings about the engendering of the flower,<br>When also Zephyrus with his sweet breath<br>Exhales an air in every grove and heath<br>Upon the tender shoots, and the young sun<br>His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run,<br>And the small fowl are making melody<br>That sleep away the night with open eye<br>(So nature pricks them and their heart engages)<br>Then people long to go on pilgrimages<br>And palmers long to seek the stranger strands<br>Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<em>The Canterbury Tales<\/em>, a modern translation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in April the sweet showers fallAnd pierce the drought of March to the root, and allThe veins are bathed in liquor of such powerAs brings about the engendering of the flower,When also Zephyrus with his sweet breathExhales an air in every grove and heathUpon the tender shoots, and the young sunHis half-course in the sign of the Ram has [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-via-lemovicensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20004,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions\/20004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}