{"id":855,"date":"2023-12-09T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=855"},"modified":"2023-12-09T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:58:12","slug":"9-decembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2023\/12\/09\/9-decembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"#9 decembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On my walk this morning I stopped to ponder a tree that was still full of leaves in December. It didn&#8217;t seem any more protected than other trees or stronger or taller. It was just a tree along our road and it got   me to pause, look, and pay attention to the landscape and wonder about the last leaf of the season.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-1536x1159.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-2048x1546.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-1200x906.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/09-decembrance-23-1980x1494.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You Can&#8217;t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will fall in the end,\u00a0<br>those who say you can\u2019t.\u00a0<br>It\u2019ll be age or boredom that overtakes them,\u00a0<br>or lack of imagination.\u00a0<br>Sooner or later, all leaves fall to the ground.\u00a0<br>You can be the last leaf.\u00a0<br>You can convince the universe\u00a0<br>that you pose no threat\u00a0<br>to the tree\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/you-cant\">Maya Abu Al-Hayyat <\/a> from You Can Be the Last Leaf, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat &amp; Fady Jouda, Milkweed Editions, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my walk this morning I stopped to ponder a tree that was still full of leaves in December. It didn&#8217;t seem any more protected than other trees or stronger or taller. It was just a tree along our road and it got me to pause, look, and pay attention to the landscape and wonder [&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-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}