{"id":2235,"date":"2025-06-12T19:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2025-06-12T19:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:17:36","slug":"12-summer-shards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/06\/12\/12-summer-shards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#12 summer shards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last night just before I wound down for bed I walked outside in search of the moon. I cheered on seeing fireflies. I studied our tall trees. My mind stretched beyond the fields. I noted the windows of our house, but no moon was yet visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/12-summer-shards-2025-1024x736.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/12-summer-shards-2025-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/12-summer-shards-2025-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/12-summer-shards-2025-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/12-summer-shards-2025-1536x1104.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/12-summer-shards-2025-2048x1472.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Standing outside<br>staring at a tree<br>gentles our eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We cheer<br>to see fireflies<br>winking again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where have our friends been<br>all the long hours?<br>Minds stretching<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">beyond the field<br>become<br>their own skies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Windows\u00a0 \u00a0doors<br>grow more<br>important<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look through a word<br>swing that sentence<br>wide open<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kneeling outside<br>to find<br>sturdy green<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">glistening blossoms<br>under the breeze<br>that carries us silently<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Naomi Shihab Nye, excerpt from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/155479\/every-day-as-a-wide-field-every-page\">Every day as a wide field, every page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night just before I wound down for bed I walked outside in search of the moon. I cheered on seeing fireflies. I studied our tall trees. My mind stretched beyond the fields. I noted the windows of our house, but no moon was yet visible. Standing outsidestaring at a treegentles our eyes We cheerto [&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-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}