{"id":8326,"date":"2011-02-14T07:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T11:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2011-02-01T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:45:45","slug":"great-poem-for-wedding-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8326","title":{"rendered":"Great Poem for Wedding Invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Friendly Atheist blog recently showcased the <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/09\/24\/a-beautiful-secular-wedding\/\">secular wedding<\/a> of a couple of science geeks.<\/p>\n<p>The script for the ceremony began with a poem which would also be perfect as a sweetly gothic touch on a wedding invitation or save-the-date card:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>The Spider\u2019s Web (A Natural History)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The spider, dropping down from twig,<br \/>\nUnfolds a plan of her devising,<br \/>\nA thin premeditated rig<br \/>\nTo use in rising.<\/p>\n<p>And all that journey down through space,<br \/>\nIn cool descent and loyal hearted,<br \/>\nShe spins a ladder to the place<br \/>\nFrom where she started.<\/p>\n<p>Thus I, gone forth as spiders do<br \/>\nIn spider&#8217;s web a truth discerning,<br \/>\nAttach one silken thread to you<br \/>\nFor my returning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; E.B. White<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to love poetry that manages to combine romance and spiders.  I may wind up writing this in my anniversary card to Shadow Jack this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friendly Atheist blog recently showcased the secular wedding of a couple of science geeks. The script for the ceremony began with a poem which would also be perfect as a sweetly gothic touch on a wedding invitation or save-the-date card: The Spider\u2019s Web (A Natural History) The spider, dropping down from twig, Unfolds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9999,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions\/9999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}