{"id":2380,"date":"2025-12-21T19:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:25:19","slug":"21-decembrance-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/12\/21\/21-decembrance-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#21 decembrance 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy winter solstice! Here is the last post of this decembrance series. I made sure to get outside before sunset to walk the dog and then light a small bonfire. The daily effort to photograph, write, and find a poem is never easy. But the poems freshen my eyes, renewing my local landscape, rejuvenating my language to express ideas that move beyond conventional beauty. I am looking forward to our lengthening days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/21-decembrance-2025-1024x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/21-decembrance-2025-1024x727.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/21-decembrance-2025-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/21-decembrance-2025-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/21-decembrance-2025-1536x1090.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/21-decembrance-2025-2048x1454.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Garlic seedheads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You told me you couldn&#8217;t see<br>a better day coming,<br>so I gave you my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercanyonpress.org\/books\/braided-creek-a-conversation-in-poetry-expanded-anniversary-edition\/\"><em>Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry,<\/em> Copper Canyon Press<\/a>, 2003 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy winter solstice! Here is the last post of this decembrance series. I made sure to get outside before sunset to walk the dog and then light a small bonfire. The daily effort to photograph, write, and find a poem is never easy. But the poems freshen my eyes, renewing my local landscape, rejuvenating my [&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-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}