{"id":3836,"date":"2013-06-23T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2013-06-23T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:44:16","slug":"july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July is birthday month around here.  Me, Debbie, nephew Tom, brother-in-law Allan, favorite niece Gwen <a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a>, various and sundry sisters-in-law <a href=\"#2\">[2]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, being a modern fellow, I order all my birthday gifts from Amazon.  And when I do, because I&#8217;m getting free shipping, I include something off my wish list for me.<\/p>\n<p>This year that was Wendell Berry&#8217;s &#8220;A Timbered Choir: the Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I got no further than the preface before I had to pause because once again Wendell Berry spoke so directly to me.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I am an amateur poet, working for the love of the work and to my own satisfaction &#8211; which are two of the conditions of &#8216;self-employment&#8217; as I understand it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a lot of work because I got paid to do it.  And that&#8217;s not a bad thing, it&#8217;s put a roof over my head and food on my table.  But I&#8217;ve done a lot of work because it pleased me to do it, and that is a satisfying thing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a name=\"1\">1. Just kidding Emma, Karen, and Madison!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\">2.  There are so many of them, how to keep track?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July is birthday month around here. Me, Debbie, nephew Tom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}