{"id":2066,"date":"2025-04-25T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:44:16","slug":"reflections-on-an-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/reflections-on-an-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on an Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The freedom an oak tree knows<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0That is built at night by stars<\/em>\u2014Linda Gregg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">what\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0human mind\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0can\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0fathom\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the<br \/>\nslow\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0deliberate\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0tethered\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0freedom<br \/>\nenjoyed\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0or\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0borne\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0an<br \/>\naugust\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0fissure-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0barked\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0oak<br \/>\nor\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0what\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0grey-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0clad\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0tree<br \/>\nstanding\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0solitary knows<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">amid misty green, that<br \/>\n<em>Quercus<\/em> specimen is<br \/>\na quiet architecture built<br \/>\nthrough adding rings at<br \/>\neach season, day and night<br \/>\nnourished by sun and soil, by<br \/>\ntime and rain\u2014under a canopy of stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freedom an oak tree knows \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0That is built at night by stars\u2014Linda Gregg what\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0human mind\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0can\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0fathom\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the slow\u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/reflections-on-an-oak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflections on an Oak<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6876],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6876"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 14:09:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}