{"id":589,"date":"2005-08-05T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=589"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:49:54","slug":"the-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/08\/05\/the-road-not-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Not Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forget how I stumbled upon this today (it was via a link from someone&#8217;s blog), and I just kind of felt like sharing it. I&#8217;ve always liked this poem, anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,<br \/>\nAnd sorry I could not travel both<br \/>\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood<br \/>\nAnd looked down one as far as I could<br \/>\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p>\n<p>Then took the other, as just as fair,<br \/>\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,<br \/>\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;<br \/>\nThough as for that the passing there<br \/>\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/p>\n<p>And both that morning equally lay<br \/>\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.<br \/>\nOh, I kept the first for another day!<br \/>\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,<br \/>\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br \/>\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:<br \/>\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014<br \/>\nI took the one less traveled by,<br \/>\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>-Robert Frost (1874\u20131963)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked this poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-9v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1180,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/06\/20\/great-driving-roads\/","url_meta":{"origin":589,"position":0},"title":"Great Driving Roads","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently I've found some absolutely wonderful driving roads here in NJ - in Morris and Union Counties, actually. 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