{"id":3953,"date":"2016-04-14T06:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eekim.com\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2016-04-14T06:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:56:21","slug":"one-art-on-loss-and-detachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/2016\/04\/one-art-on-loss-and-detachment\/","title":{"rendered":"One Art: On Loss and Detachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/176996\">One Art<\/a><\/em>, by Elizabeth Bishop:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master;<br \/>\nso many things seem filled with the intent<br \/>\nto be lost that their loss is no disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Lose something every day. Accept the fluster<br \/>\nof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.<br \/>\nThe art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master.<\/p>\n<p>Then practice losing farther, losing faster:<br \/>\nplaces, and names, and where it was you meant<br \/>\nto travel. None of these will bring disaster.<\/p>\n<p>I lost my mother\u2019s watch. And look! my last, or<br \/>\nnext-to-last, of three loved houses went.<br \/>\nThe art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master.<\/p>\n<p>I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,<br \/>\nsome realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.<br \/>\nI miss them, but it wasn\u2019t a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture<br \/>\nI love) I shan\u2019t have lied. It\u2019s evident<br \/>\nthe art of losing\u2019s not too hard to master<br \/>\nthough it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/katewing.net\/\">Kate Wing<\/a> for sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop: The art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master. Then practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[493,550,961,1090,1449],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cTFX-11L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}