{"id":1078,"date":"2024-12-19T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2024-12-19T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:00:40","slug":"19-decembrance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/12\/19\/19-decembrance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#19 decembrance 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While photographing today I wondered if my pictures have been too grey. I felt as if the alphabet of imagery and inspiration in my landscape is lacking the darkness of crows amidst the bright witness of the moon. I was dreaming of the pop of color only a grocery store tulip could provide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-2048x1381.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-1200x809.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/19-decembrance-2024-1980x1336.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why Are Your Poems So Dark?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn\u2019t the moon dark too,<br>most of the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And doesn\u2019t the white page<br>seem unfinished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">without the dark stain<br>of alphabets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When God demanded light,<br>he didn\u2019t banish darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead he invented<br>ebony and crows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and that small mole<br>on your left cheekbone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or did you mean to ask<br>\u201cWhy are you sad so often?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask the moon.<br>Ask what it has witnessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Linda Pastan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While photographing today I wondered if my pictures have been too grey. I felt as if the alphabet of imagery and inspiration in my landscape is lacking the darkness of crows amidst the bright witness of the moon. I was dreaming of the pop of color only a grocery store tulip could provide. Why Are [&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-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","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=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}