{"id":305,"date":"2020-04-30T14:58:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=305"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:27:19","slug":"samaudaya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/samaudaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaudaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Richard Luftig<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The cause of suffering: C<\/em><em>raving, desire<\/em><em>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>attachment.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been a month\u00a0<br>since farmers have marked\u00a0\u00a0<br>off their fields for planting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it is like that here:\u00a0<br>in March when the snow\u00a0<br>falls for days, piles up\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for weeks, the acreage\u00a0<br>in some places dull\u00a0<br>with the landscape\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">undulated and flat\u00a0<br>as week-old beer,\u00a0\u00a0<br>and others shabby,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">broken through\u00a0\u00a0<br>with wizened corn\u00a0<br>stalks that appears\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in furrows like stubbles\u00a0\u00a0<br>of a three- day beard.\u00a0<br>And the tractors:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">forced to wait\u00a0\u00a0<br>Zen-like in their barns,\u00a0<br>holding tight their breaths\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in anticipation of afternoons\u00a0\u00a0<br>that grow longer, temperatures\u00a0\u00a0<br>which rise with each succeeding\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">daybreak, their cold motors,\u00a0<br>asleep in the humid dark,\u00a0\u00a0<br>waiting to turn over and catch.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Luftig The cause of suffering: Craving, desire,&nbsp;attachment.&nbsp; It\u2019s been a month\u00a0since farmers have marked\u00a0\u00a0off their fields for planting.\u00a0 But it is like that here:\u00a0in March when the snow\u00a0falls for days, piles up\u00a0 for weeks, the acreage\u00a0in some places dull\u00a0with the landscape\u00a0 undulated and flat\u00a0as week-old beer,\u00a0\u00a0and others shabby,\u00a0 broken through\u00a0\u00a0with wizened corn\u00a0stalks that&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/samaudaya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samaudaya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-305","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}