{"id":6711,"date":"2026-03-03T23:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:51:32","slug":"walt-whitman-when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/walt-whitman-when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn\u2019d Astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I heard the learn\u2019d astronomer,<br>When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,<br>When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,<br>When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,<br>How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,<br>Till rising and gliding out I wander\u2019d off by myself,<br>In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,<br>Look\u2019d up in perfect silence at the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2060\u2014WALT WHITMAN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full moon today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard the learn\u2019d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/walt-whitman-when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer\/\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493,17,7],"tags":[566,564,563],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astro","category-citat","category-poesi","tag-astronomer","tag-astronomy","tag-whitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}