{"id":108,"date":"2013-10-01T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=108"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:50","slug":"into-the-winds-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/10\/01\/into-the-winds-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"into the wind&#8217;s teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/01\/us\/politics\/congress-shutdown-debate.html?hp\"><strong><br \/>\nGovernment Is Shutting Down in Impasse<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/01\/us\/politics\/congress-shutdown-debate.html?hp\">800,000 Face Furloughs; a Million More Are to Work Without Pay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hard times &#8212; \u00a0a Congress locked in venom and contempt for those with whom one must negotiate, \u00a0&#8220;partisan&#8221; is a common adjective for elected officials at the national level; \u00a0 Detroit city caught in uncertainties about bankruptcy that stir mistrust and fear for the future; \u00a0 UDM negotiating a McNichols faculty contract turned acrimonious and hurtful.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal deadline arrive today. \u00a0A marker day for a Congress locked in venom and contempt for those with whom one must negotiate.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s poem could be a blessing for people laid off this morning, or a blessing for all of us who come to UDM to work at the labors of education.<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Manoeuvre<\/p>\n<p>I saw the two starlings<br \/>\ncoming in toward the wires<br \/>\nBut at the last,<br \/>\njust before alighting, they<\/p>\n<p>turned in the air together<br \/>\nand landed backwards!<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s what got me &#8212;<br \/>\nto face into the wind&#8217;s teeth.<\/p>\n<p>William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government Is Shutting Down in Impasse 800,000 Face Furloughs; a Million More Are to Work Without Pay \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hard times &#8212; \u00a0a Congress locked in venom and contempt for those with whom one must negotiate, \u00a0&#8220;partisan&#8221; is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/10\/01\/into-the-winds-teeth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}