{"id":412,"date":"2021-09-17T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostme123.vip\/robertcraigthomas\/?p=412"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:23:56","slug":"can-words-have-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/can-words-have-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Can words have meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can words have meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>like a wall, a stone, a grain of sand?<br \/>\nA tree, a leaf, a chloroplast?<br \/>\nDo questions have meaning,<br \/>\nare words an answer or simply<br \/>\na delaying tactic, before we admit<br \/>\nno.<\/p>\n<p>Does my life have meaning if its measured<br \/>\nin syllables and phrases? Is there more<br \/>\nmeaning in my hands when<br \/>\nthey weed a garden? Is the earth<br \/>\ncaked beneath my fingernails<br \/>\nmeaning? When<\/p>\n<p>the words build and grow within<br \/>\nmy brain like vegetables on a vine,<br \/>\nwhich I harvest and cook, is that<br \/>\nmeaning? Is there meaning in<br \/>\nmy cells, are my hemocytes noble<br \/>\nand heroic or are they simply<br \/>\nthe droning on of my bone marrow?<\/p>\n<p>Is there meaning in these words<br \/>\nor is this, too, a trick, so I must not learn<br \/>\nto build a wall, to fix a pipe, or break<br \/>\nmy nails pulling carrots<br \/>\nfrom the damp earth?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[2021.07.18 v2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can words have meaning like a wall, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-normal-emotions","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcraigthomas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}