{"id":2336,"date":"2025-12-11T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:49:01","slug":"11-decembrance-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/12\/11\/11-decembrance-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#11 decembrance 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December I struggle to get my desired number of steps in during the daylight hours. I reach for bowls of soup with more spicy heat than is usual. I work harder to find beauty in the fallow garden. I trust that both dawn and summer are coming.<\/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\/2025\/12\/11-decembrance-2025-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11-decembrance-2025-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11-decembrance-2025-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11-decembrance-2025-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11-decembrance-2025-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11-decembrance-2025-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cayenne peppers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be patient<br>where you sit<br>in the dark.<br>The dawn<br>is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Jalaluddin Rumi [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dar-al-masnavi.org\/about_dar_al_masnavi.html\">go here for a discussion of Rumi quotes\/translations]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December I struggle to get my desired number of steps in during the daylight hours. I reach for bowls of soup with more spicy heat than is usual. I work harder to find beauty in the fallow garden. I trust that both dawn and summer are coming. Be patientwhere you sitin the dark.The dawnis [&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-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}