{"id":2217,"date":"2025-06-08T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:38:48","slug":"8-summer-shards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/06\/08\/8-summer-shards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#8 summer shards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I taught a workshop this weekend. As I prepared, I revisited my established ideas of making, some rules of thumb, along with recent inspirations. There are so many jumping off points to hone one&#8217;s own voice. We are lucky if we get to let it bloom.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08-summer-shards-2025-772x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08-summer-shards-2025-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08-summer-shards-2025-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08-summer-shards-2025-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08-summer-shards-2025-1158x1536.jpg 1158w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08-summer-shards-2025.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Sharon Olds commenting on publishing her first book of poems at age 38.<br>See a description at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php%3Fdate=2009%252F11%252F19.html\">The Writer&#8217;s Almanac<\/a><\/em> (last section)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I taught a workshop this weekend. As I prepared, I revisited my established ideas of making, some rules of thumb, along with recent inspirations. There are so many jumping off points to hone one&#8217;s own voice. We are lucky if we get to let it bloom. &#8220;I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms [&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":[29],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas","tag-garlic-scapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}