{"id":1085,"date":"2024-12-21T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2024-12-21T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T00:30:21","slug":"21-decembrance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/12\/21\/21-decembrance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#21 decembrance 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here it is, the solstice. The longest night of the year has arrived.  Physics and astronomy can explain how and when this moment occurs. But for me it&#8217;s about the mystery and the marking of a subtle shift, the feeling of a pause before the increasing daylight clearly begins to shift the balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/21-decembrance-2024-1980x1320.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>My Crow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crow flew into the tree outside my window.<br>It was not Ted Hughes\u2019s crow, or Galway\u2019s crow.<br>Or Frost\u2019s, Pasternak\u2019s, or Lorca\u2019s crow.<br>Or one of Homer\u2019s crows, stuffed with gore,<br>after the battle. This was just a crow.<br>That never fit in anywhere in its life,<br>or did anything worth mentioning.<br>It sat there on the branch for a few minutes.<br>Then picked up and flew beautifully<br>out of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Raymond Carver, from <em>In A Marine Light: Selected Poems<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, the solstice. The longest night of the year has arrived. Physics and astronomy can explain how and when this moment occurs. But for me it&#8217;s about the mystery and the marking of a subtle shift, the feeling of a pause before the increasing daylight clearly begins to shift the balance. My Crow [&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-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","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=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}