{"id":442,"date":"2026-04-06T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=442"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:57:24","slug":"train-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Train Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"Looking forward to a cross country train trip:<br \/><br \/>Love,<br \/>     By Billy Collins<br \/><br \/>The boy at the far end of the train car<br \/>kept looking behind him<br \/>as if he were afraid or expecting someone<br \/><br \/>and then she appeared in the glass door<br \/>of the forward car and he rose<br \/>and opened the door and let her in<br \/><br \/>and she entered the car carrying a large black case<br \/>int the unmistakable shape of a cello<br \/><br \/>She looked like an angel with a high forehead<br \/>and somber eyes and her hair <br \/>was tied up behind her neck with a black bow<br \/><br \/>and because of all that <br \/>he seemed a little awkward<br \/>in his happiness to see her,<br \/><br \/>whereas she was simply there,<br \/>perfectly existing as a creature<br \/>with a soft face who played the cello.<br \/><br \/>And the reason I am writing this <br \/>on the back of a manila envelope<br \/>now that they have left the train together<br \/><br \/>is to tell you that when she turned<br \/>to lift the large, delicate cello<br \/>onto the overhead rack,<br \/><br \/>I saw him looking up at her <br \/>and what she was doing<br \/>the way the eyes of saints are painted<br \/><br \/>whe they are looking up at God <br \/>when he is doing something remarkable,<br \/>something that identifies him as God.<br \/><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking forward to a cross country train trip: Love, By Billy Collins The boy at the far end of the train carkept looking behind himas if he were afraid or expecting someone and then she appeared in the glass doorof the forward car and he roseand opened the door and let her in and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}