{"id":11822,"date":"2019-11-06T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=11822"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T13:25:03","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-standing-is-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2019\/11\/06\/the-poetry-snapshot-standing-is-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: standing is falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A step in any direction could lead her down such different paths,<br \/>\nthat sometimes it seems easier to stand still in comfort.<br \/>\nNever move forward so she can guarantee not taking the <em>wrong step.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nBut what happens when she takes a wrong step?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11823\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 374px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11823\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_008015304-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_008015304-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_008015304-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_008015304-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_008015304.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Mailbox Peak, Washington<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is it that she has to<br \/>\nwork harder to climb up?<br \/>\nShe reaches a dead end<br \/>\nand has to back track?<\/p>\n<p>If the\u00a0<em>right\u00a0<\/em>step brings her<br \/>\nto the top of a mountain,<br \/>\nevery wrong step creates a<br \/>\nstory of lessons learned<br \/>\nand memories earned.<\/p>\n<p>Standing still only deprives her<br \/>\nof a beautiful view and a beautiful story.<\/p>\n<p>So move, dance, run, leap,<br \/>\nbut do not stand still.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A step in any direction could lead her down such different paths, that sometimes it seems easier to stand still in comfort. Never move forward so she can guarantee not taking the wrong step. But what happens when she takes a wrong step? Is it that she has to work harder to climb up? She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15102,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions\/15102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}