{"id":2266,"date":"2007-09-02T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2007-09-04T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T20:58:19","slug":"the-work-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-work-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Labor Day sonnet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/print\/sunday\/arts\/story\/690131.html\">&#8220;The Work of Love,&#8221;<\/a> is published in today&#8217;s News and Observer on the Book Page. That&#8217;s great and I&#8217;m grateful. But they still can&#8217;t get the formating right for the online version &#8212; yuck.<\/p>\n<p>Should look like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Work of Love<\/p>\n<p>The work of love is not the love of work.<br \/>\nWork will not make you free. Take it from me.<br \/>\nI could drone on for years; did for thirty.<br \/>\nLove should not hide but labor should be shirked.<br \/>\nDoes a leashed dog appreciate the jerk<br \/>\nAt the other end? Call it family,<br \/>\nA team, and the tyrant boss &#8220;our Daddy&#8221;<br \/>\nAs if his abuse was a petty perk?<\/p>\n<p>But when our own desire controls our hearts<br \/>\nAnd says: &#8220;Work must be done again.&#8221; &#8220;Begin.&#8221;,<br \/>\nWe put on worn jeans, caps, and sweat-stiff gloves &#8212;<br \/>\nPreparations, ways to delay our start &#8211;.<br \/>\nSo much before us seems immense &#8212; just then<br \/>\nThe love of work becomes the work of love. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/print\/sunday\/arts\/story\/690131.html\">News and Observer folks fixed the poem layout here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Labor Day sonnet, &#8220;The Work of Love,&#8221; is published in today&#8217;s News and Observer on the Book Page. That&#8217;s great and I&#8217;m grateful. But they still can&#8217;t get the formating right for the online version &#8212; yuck. Should look like this: The Work of Love The work of love is not the love of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}