{"id":223,"date":"2020-12-08T18:18:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=223"},"modified":"2020-12-08T18:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:18:06","slug":"8-decembrance-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2020\/12\/08\/8-decembrance-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"#8 decembrance 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been paying attention to the early signs of December but this week the cold winds have blown in and with early sunsets there is no question of the season. It is such a gift to have my white orchid blooming. Bent over my notebook I may search for the words to describe the wind but there is no need as the echos of the syllables creek through the swaying trees. Tonight in the last light of a circular dog walk up a steep slope I was lost in thought admiring the line of hillside against the sky in fading pink when a honk jolted me awake and to my surprise two swans flew overhead singing like jazz trumpeters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-1536x1115.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-2048x1487.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-1200x871.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/08-decembrance-2020-1980x1437.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Utterance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sitting over words<br>very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing<br>not far<br>like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark<br>the echo of everything that has ever<br>been spoken<br>still spinning its one syllable<br>between the earth and silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 W.S. Merwin, from <em>The Rain in the Trees<\/em>, 1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been paying attention to the early signs of December but this week the cold winds have blown in and with early sunsets there is no question of the season. It is such a gift to have my white orchid blooming. Bent over my notebook I may search for the words to describe the [&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-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}