{"id":950,"date":"2013-03-31T05:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=950"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T20:44:56","slug":"excelsior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/excelsior\/","title":{"rendered":"And I&#8217;m Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>hen in April the sweet showers fall<br \/>\nAnd pierce the drought of March to the root, and all<br \/>\nThe veins are bathed in liquor of such power<br \/>\nAs brings about the engendering of the flower,<br \/>\nWhen also Zephyrus with his sweet breath<br \/>\nExhales an air in every grove and heath<br \/>\nUpon the tender shoots, and the young sun<br \/>\nHis half-course in the sign of the Ram has run,<br \/>\nAnd the small fowl are making melody<br \/>\nThat sleep away the night with open eye<br \/>\n(So nature pricks them and their heart engages)<br \/>\nThen people long to go on pilgrimages<br \/>\nAnd palmers long to seek the stranger strands<br \/>\nOf far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands<\/p>\n<p>(<em>The Canterbury Tales<\/em>, a modern translation)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/2013\/03\/31\/excelsior\/k09-04-24-75\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1059\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/k09-04-24-75-e1364337744562.jpg\" alt=\"Peregrino\" width=\"302\" height=\"452\" class=\"alignnone size-full 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\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower, When also Zephyrus with his sweet breath Exhales an air in every grove and heath Upon the tender shoots, and the young sun His half-course [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,12],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pilgrim-reports","category-ruminations","category-thom","tag-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}