{"id":744,"date":"2023-06-05T21:13:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-06-05T21:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:13:42","slug":"5-summer-shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2023\/06\/05\/5-summer-shards\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This evening we watched the sunset, our eyes lingering on the field&#8217;s green edge. The conversation wandered and there were moments when each of us felt like stray cats, eyes bright as if we had said too much about the neighborhood or our deeply held emotions. But we turn and look again at the abundant green and feel lucky for where we have all landed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23-1024x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23-1536x1529.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23-1200x1195.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/05-summer-23.jpg 1607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, we take the moon<br>into the middle of our brains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so we look like roadside stray cats<br>with bright flashlight-white eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in our faces, but no real ideas<br>of when or where to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We linger on the field&#8217;s green edge<br>and say, <em>Someday son, none of this<\/em><br><em><br>will be yours<\/em>. Miracles are all around.<br>We&#8217;re not so much homeless<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as we are home free, penny-poor,<br>but plenty lucky for love and leaves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that keep breaking the fall&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Ada Limon, from <em>We Are Surprised<\/em> in Bright Dead Things, Milkweed Press, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening we watched the sunset, our eyes lingering on the field&#8217;s green edge. The conversation wandered and there were moments when each of us felt like stray cats, eyes bright as if we had said too much about the neighborhood or our deeply held emotions. But we turn and look again at the abundant [&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-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}