{"id":753,"date":"2023-06-07T19:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=753"},"modified":"2023-06-07T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:54:37","slug":"7-summer-shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2023\/06\/07\/7-summer-shards\/","title":{"rendered":"#7 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often in June after dinner I walk up the driveway to see more sky. I walk to the edge of the road and admire a favorite tree and try to catch the sunset and perhaps a few fireflies. Today it&#8217;s smoky though not as smoky as it is north of us. Evidence of distance is magnified by the smoke. Back in the garden I have cut the scapes on this years scant garlic. Sometimes I feel like the exuberant loops of the scapes are made up brain waves and fancy loops of garden energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23-1536x1200.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23-1200x938.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23-1980x1547.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07-summer-23.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Garlic scapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nights when it&#8217;s warm<br>and no one is watching,<br>I walk to the edge<br>of the road and stare<br>at all the fireflies.<br>I squint and pretend<br>they&#8217;re hallucinations,<br>bright made-up waves<br>of the brain.<br>I call them,<br><em>field bling<\/em>.<br>I call them,<br><em>fancy creepies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Ada Limon, from <em>Field Bling<\/em>, in Bright Dead Things, Millkweed Editions, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often in June after dinner I walk up the driveway to see more sky. I walk to the edge of the road and admire a favorite tree and try to catch the sunset and perhaps a few fireflies. Today it&#8217;s smoky though not as smoky as it is north of us. Evidence of distance is [&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-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}