{"id":850,"date":"2023-12-08T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=850"},"modified":"2023-12-08T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:45:21","slug":"8-decembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2023\/12\/08\/8-decembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"#8 decembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been hard at work in our gallery space preparing for this weekend&#8217;s open studio. I asked Warren at one point, &#8220;what have you learned as we do this each season.&#8221; He replied that he feels lucky that we can follow a dream of making pots and displaying them in a calm place, sharing our vision for how we imagine pottery to be seen, used and appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/08-decembrance-23.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Conditional<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Say tomorrow doesn\u2019t come.<br>Say the moon becomes an icy pit.<br>Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified.<br>Say the sun\u2019s a foul black tire fire.<br>Say the owl\u2019s eyes are pinpricks.<br>Say the raccoon\u2019s a hot tar stain.<br>Say the shirt\u2019s plastic ditch-litter.<br>Say the kitchen\u2019s a cow\u2019s corpse.<br>Say we never get to see it: bright<br>future, stuck like a bum star, never<br>coming close, never dazzling.<br>Say we never meet her. Never him.<br>Say we spend our last moments staring<br>at each other, hands knotted together,<br>clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.<br>Say, It doesn\u2019t matter. Say, That would be<br>enough. Say you\u2019d still want this: us alive,<br>right here, feeling lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Ada Lim\u00f3n, <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem-a-day\">Poem-a-Day<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/conditional\">March 14, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been hard at work in our gallery space preparing for this weekend&#8217;s open studio. I asked Warren at one point, &#8220;what have you learned as we do this each season.&#8221; He replied that he feels lucky that we can follow a dream of making pots and displaying them in a calm place, sharing [&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-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}