{"id":4295,"date":"2007-12-12T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2007-12-12T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T18:44:07","slug":"the-best-mormon-poem-ever-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/the-best-mormon-poem-ever-written\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Mormon Poem Ever Written"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eugene England, this is the best Mormon poem ever written:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>To a Dying Girl<\/b><\/p>\n<p>How quickly must she go?<br \/>\nShe calls dark swans from mirrors everywhere:<br \/>\nFrom halls and porticos, from pools of air.<br \/>\nHow quickly must she know?<br \/>\nThey wander through the fathoms of her eye,<br \/>\nWaning southerly until their cry<br \/>\nIs gone where she must go.<br \/>\nHow quickly does the cloudfire streak the sky,<br \/>\nTremble on the peaks, then cool and die?<br \/>\nShe moves like evening into night,<br \/>\nForgetful as swans forget their flight<br \/>\nOr spring the fragile snow,<br \/>\nSo quickly she must go.<\/p>\n<p>-Clinton F. Larson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why do you think England made the judgment he did?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eugene England, this is the best Mormon poem ever written:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}