{"id":12311,"date":"2026-04-25T12:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:09:30","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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Red Wheel Barrow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So much depends<br>upon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a red wheel<br>barrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">glazed with rain<br>water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">beside the white<br>chickens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 earlier to look for poems on rain because I found one of my favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I will live this poem &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Big Comfy Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So much depends <br>upon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big comfy <br>chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worn with <br>age<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beside the white <br>orchids<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0878-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0878-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0878-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0878-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0878-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0878-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0878.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White orchids and green fern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some days are just this &#8211; immobile, grey, pensive, filled with little activity except the movement of a needle, the pencilling of letters, or the sigh of the housebound. Tomorrow the sun will shine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Wheel Barrow 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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","has-post-thumbnail","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":7,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12474,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions\/12474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12310"}],"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}]}}