{"id":4480,"date":"2009-09-18T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/september\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T19:30:00","slug":"september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/september\/","title":{"rendered":"September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SrPnfOERf4I\/AAAAAAAAASI\/Z5xZLlZv2qA\/s1600-h\/119_1935.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382900503175856002\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SrPnfOERf4I\/AAAAAAAAASI\/Z5xZLlZv2qA\/s400\/119_1935.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000066;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000066;\">The Railway Children<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000066;\">When we climbed the slopes of the cutting<br \/>We were eye-level with the white cups<br \/>Of the telegraph poles and the sizzling wires.<\/p>\n<p>Like lovely freehand they curved for miles<br \/>East and miles west beyond us, sagging<br \/>Under their burden of swallows.<\/p>\n<p>We were small and thought we knew nothing<br \/>Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires<br \/>In the shiny pouches of raindrops,<\/p>\n<p>Each one seeded full with the light<br \/>Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves<br \/>So infinitesimally scaled<\/p>\n<p>We could stream through the eye of a needle.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Seamus Heaney<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">September Birthdays<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>September 5 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/campanella\/\">Tommaso Campanella<\/a> (Italian, born 1568)<\/p>\n<p>September 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marin_Mersenne\">Marin Mersenne<\/a> (French, born 1588)<\/p>\n<p>September 10 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/peirce\/\">Charles Sanders Peirce<\/a> (American, born 1839)<\/p>\n<p>September 11 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/adorno\/\">Theodor Adorno<\/a> (German, born 1903)<\/p>\n<p>September 13 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alain_LeRoy_Locke\">Alain Locke<\/a> (American, born 1886)<\/p>\n<p>September 16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/bolingbr\/\">Henry St. John Bolingbroke<\/a> (British, born 1678) and <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/pomponazzi\/\">Pietro Pomponazzi<\/a> (Italian, born 1462)<\/p>\n<p>September 17 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marquis_de_Condorcet\">Marquis de Condorcet<\/a> (French, born 1743)<\/p>\n<p>September 26 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/reichenbach\/\">Hans Reichenbach<\/a> (German\/American, born 1891) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/heidegge\/\">Martin Heidegger<\/a> (German, born 1889)<\/p>\n<p>September 29 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miguel_de_Unamuno\">Miguel de Unamuno y Jug<\/a>o (Spanish, born 1864)<\/p>\n<p>September 30 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/condillac\/\">Ettiene Bonnot de Condillac <\/a>(French, born 1715)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Children When we climbed the slopes of the cuttingWe were eye-level with the white cupsOf the telegraph poles and the sizzling wires. 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