{"id":798,"date":"2023-06-16T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=798"},"modified":"2023-06-16T20:46:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:46:31","slug":"16-summer-shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2023\/06\/16\/16-summer-shards\/","title":{"rendered":"#16 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today at lunch I noticed a baby ground hog climb up on a three-foot high willow stump on the edge of the pond. I reached for binoculars and sat on the porch to watch as a parent climbed up to join in the fun. They both rubbed their ears against the rotting wood. I was mesmerized by the liquid bristle and waddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-1024x777.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-1536x1166.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-2048x1554.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-1200x911.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16-summer-23-1980x1503.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daisy, bee balm, purple heart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Give Me This<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought it was the neighbor\u2019s cat back<br>to clean the clock of the fledgling robins low<br>in their nest stuck in the dense hedge by the house<br>but what came was much stranger, a liquidity<br>moving all muscle and bristle. A groundhog<br>slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still<br>green in the morning\u2019s shade. I watched her<br>munch and stand on her haunches taking such<br>pleasure in the watery bites. Why am I not allowed<br>delight? A stranger writes to request my thoughts<br>on suffering. Barbed wire pulled out of the mouth,<br>as if demanding that I kneel to the trap of coiled<br>spikes used in warfare and fencing. Instead,<br>I watch the groundhog closer and a sound escapes<br>me, a small spasm of joy I did not imagine<br>when I woke. She is a funny creature and earnest,<br>and she is doing what she can to survive.<br><br>&#8211;Ada Lim\u00f3n, originally published in Poem-a-Day, 9\/16\/2020, by the Academy of American Poets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at lunch I noticed a baby ground hog climb up on a three-foot high willow stump on the edge of the pond. I reached for binoculars and sat on the porch to watch as a parent climbed up to join in the fun. They both rubbed their ears against the rotting wood. I was [&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-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}