{"id":3779,"date":"2011-12-25T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T09:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2011-12-25T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T09:38:21","slug":"poem-up-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/poem-up-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  Up-Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/12\/poem-the-lost-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lost Man<\/a> by Judith Wright yesterday reminded me of another poem about the journey of life:\u00a0 \u00a0<em>Up-Hill<\/em>, by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), sister of the pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.\u00a0 This poem was first published in 1861.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Up-Hill<\/em><br \/>\nDoes the road wind up-hill all the way?<br \/>\nYes, to the very end.<br \/>\nWill the day&#8217;s journey take the whole long day?<br \/>\nFrom morn to night, my friend.<br \/>\nBut is there for the night a resting-place?<br \/>\nA roof for when the slow dark hours begin.<br \/>\nMay not the darkness hide it from my face?<br \/>\nYou cannot miss that inn.<br \/>\nShall I meet other wayfarers at night?<br \/>\nThose who have gone before.<br \/>\nThen must I knock, or call when just in sight?<br \/>\nThey will not keep you standing at that door.<br \/>\nShall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?<br \/>\nOf labour you shall find the sum.<br \/>\nWill there be beds for me and all who seek?<br \/>\nYes, beds for all who come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting The Lost Man by Judith Wright yesterday reminded me of another poem about the journey of life:\u00a0 \u00a0Up-Hill, by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), sister of the pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.\u00a0 This poem was first published in 1861. Up-Hill Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-religion","p1","y2011","m12","d25","h09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}