{"id":300,"date":"2005-08-07T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2007-11-09T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:27:47","slug":"past-lughnasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Past Lughnasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to pick up Henry Thoreau&#8217;s journal from 1854, and read this passage from August 7, 1854:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you not feel the fruit of your spring and summer beginning to ripen, to harden its seed within you&#8211; Do not your thoughts begin to acquire consistency as well as flavor and ripeness&#8211; How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed time of character?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something to consider for this week just past Lughnasa, when we are poised in expectation, the first fruits of the harvest beginning to pour in, but we don&#8217;t yet know how bountiful the harvest will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to pick up Henry Thoreau&#8217;s journal from 1854, and read this passage from August 7, 1854: Do you not feel the fruit of your spring and summer beginning to ripen, to harden its seed within you&#8211; Do not your thoughts begin to acquire consistency as well as flavor and ripeness&#8211; How can we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer","tag-henry-thoreau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}