{"id":1052,"date":"2024-12-12T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2024-12-12T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T00:47:11","slug":"12-decembrance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/12\/12\/12-decembrance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#12 decembrance 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poet Nikki Giovanni passed away on December 9, 2024. I am grateful for her words, her voice, her vision, and her journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-2048x1073.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-1200x629.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12-decembrance-2024-1980x1037.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Journey<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a journey . . . that I propose . . . I am not the guide . . . nor technical assistant . . . I will be your fellow passenger . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the rail has been ridden . . . winter clouds cover . . . autumn\u2019s exuberant quilt . . . we must provide our own guide-posts . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have heard . . . from previous visitors . . . the road washes out sometimes . . . and passengers are compelled . . . to continue groping . . . or turn back . . . I am not afraid . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not afraid . . . of rough spots . . . or lonely times . . . I don\u2019t fear . . . the success of this endeavor . . . I am Ra . . . in a space . . . not to be discovered . . . but invented . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I promise you nothing . . . I accept your promise . . . of the same we are simply riding . . . a wave . . . that may carry . . . or crash . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a journey . . . and I want . . . to go . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Nikki Giovanni, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/journey\">A Journey<\/a><\/em> from\u00a0<em>The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968\u20131998<\/em>, copyright compilation \u00a9 2003 by Nikki Giovanni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poet Nikki Giovanni passed away on December 9, 2024. I am grateful for her words, her voice, her vision, and her journey. A Journey It\u2019s a journey . . . that I propose . . . I am not the guide . . . nor technical assistant . . . I will be your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}