{"id":1081,"date":"2024-12-20T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T01:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2024-12-20T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T01:22:21","slug":"20-decembrance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/12\/20\/20-decembrance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#20 Decembrance 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We left a friend&#8217;s house in the late afternoon grey skies. On the route home we always love the rolling hills and the endless apple orchard. Usually, I like to stop for a photograph. As I was contemplating where to stop a sky-filling burst of starlings seeded the sky. All I could do was wish I had wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-2048x1462.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20-decembrance-2024-1980x1414.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To go in the dark<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To go in the dark<br>with a light<br>is to know the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To know the dark,<br>go dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go without sight,<br>and find that the dark,<br>too, blooms and sings,<br>and is traveled by dark feet<br>and dark wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Wendell Berry, in <em>Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left a friend&#8217;s house in the late afternoon grey skies. On the route home we always love the rolling hills and the endless apple orchard. Usually, I like to stop for a photograph. As I was contemplating where to stop a sky-filling burst of starlings seeded the sky. All I could do was wish [&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-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","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=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}