{"id":12311,"date":"2026-04-25T12:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:54:10","slug":"the-red-wheel-barrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12311","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on The Red Wheel Barrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So much depends
upon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a red wheel
barrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

glazed with rain
water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

beside the white
chickens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today will be one of those all day rains. I\u2019ll sit in my big chair and do some needlework, two crossword puzzles in the Saturday paper and idle on Facebook. I\u2019m glad I took some time early to look for poems on rain because I found one of my favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I will live this poem –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much depends upon <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A big comfy chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worn with age<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beside the white orchids<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
White orchids and green fern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some days are just like this. Immobile, grey, pensive, filled with little activity except the movement of a needle, the penciling of letters or the sigh of the house bound. Tomorrow the sun will shine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens William Carlos Williams Today will be one of those all day rains. I\u2019ll sit in my big chair and do some needlework, two crossword puzzles in the Saturday paper and idle on Facebook. I\u2019m glad I took some time early to look for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12316,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}