{"id":25499,"date":"1980-12-05T14:51:37","date_gmt":"1980-12-05T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25499"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:24:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:24:51","slug":"helen-m-a-holmes-i-do-not-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25499","title":{"rendered":"Helen M. A. Holmes &#8211; &#8220;I Do Not Understand&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I Do Not Understand\u00a0<\/em>by Helen M. A. Holmes<br \/>\nI do not understand why I am I,<br \/>\nNo other being but myself<br \/>\nKnows all my thoughts, hopes, fears,<br \/>\nThe unheard sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I do not understand why I am here,<br \/>\nI seek, I ask, I pray,<br \/>\nAnd wait with sore taxed faith<br \/>\nAn answer clear.<\/p>\n<p>I do not understand the sense of things,<br \/>\nAll I have learnt, loved, borne,<br \/>\nWill vanish into space, the day I die,<br \/>\nLike air displaced by small birds&#8217; wings<br \/>\n[Taken from\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a> published 1980, by The Bohemians]<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25497\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-25497\" alt=\"Bohemian Bouquet booklet published 1980 by The Bohemias\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Bohemian-Bouquet001-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Do Not Understand\u00a0by Helen M. A. Holmes I do not understand why I am I, No other being but myself Knows all my thoughts, hopes, fears, The unheard sigh. I do not understand why I am here, I seek, I ask, I pray, And wait with sore taxed&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25499\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25499"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27055,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25499\/revisions\/27055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}