{"id":957,"date":"1997-06-02T21:11:15","date_gmt":"1997-06-03T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/?p=957"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:06:37","slug":"famous-by-naomi-shihab-nye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/famous-by-naomi-shihab-nye\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Famous&#8221;, by Naomi Shihab Nye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2847\" src=\"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColorfulGrass.jpg\" alt=\"ColorfulGrass\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColorfulGrass.jpg 480w, https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColorfulGrass-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The river is famous to the fish.<\/p>\n<p>The loud voice is famous to silence,<br \/>\nwhich knew it would inherit the earth<br \/>\nbefore anybody said so.<\/p>\n<p>The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds,<br \/>\nwatching him from the birdhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.<\/p>\n<p>The idea you carry close to your bosom<br \/>\nis famous to your bosom.<\/p>\n<p>The boot is famous to the earth,<br \/>\nmore famous than the dress shoe,<br \/>\nwhich is famous only to floors.<\/p>\n<p>The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it<br \/>\nand not at all famous to the one who is pictured.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be famous to shuffling men<br \/>\nwho smile while crossing streets,<br \/>\nsticky children in grocery lines,<br \/>\nfamous as the one who smiled back.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,<br \/>\nor a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,<br \/>\nbut because it never forgot what it could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,<br \/>\nor a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,<br \/>\nbut because it never forgot what it could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poems","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}