{"id":11087,"date":"2013-12-17T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=11087"},"modified":"2013-12-17T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:26:14","slug":"weeds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/weeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my fifty-fifth year,<br \/>\nkneeling in my garden<br \/>\nto pull a weed,<br \/>\nI discover my father,<br \/>\nwhom I hardly knew,<br \/>\nlying down in his garden.<br \/>\nHis heart so damaged now<br \/>\nno doctor would remove<br \/>\nthe cataracts that spoil his sight,<br \/>\nhe has no other way to see<br \/>\nwhat he is doing. With him again<br \/>\nin his sad dimness,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to lecture him<br \/>\nabout the smell of booze<br \/>\nor talk about the seed<br \/>\nhe left long ago untended.<br \/>\nAging father with my own<br \/>\nflaws of the heart,<br \/>\nI am content to see him<br \/>\nresting among the carrots<br \/>\nand peas. It is enough<br \/>\nto listen to him sip<br \/>\nthe air in the innocence<br \/>\nof his concentration,<br \/>\ndoing his best with the weeds.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-11087\" data-postid=\"11087\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-11087 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my fifty-fifth year, kneeling in my garden to pull a weed, I discover my father, whom I hardly knew, lying down in his garden. His heart so damaged now no doctor would remove the cataracts that spoil his sight, he has no other way to see what he is doing. With him again in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11088,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11087\/revisions\/11088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}