{"id":902,"date":"2023-12-20T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=902"},"modified":"2023-12-20T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:33:11","slug":"20-decembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2023\/12\/20\/20-decembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"#20 decembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a long city day full of moments of lights and memories of exhaustion. I am always surprised how the surface of a sidewalk can bring back a time and place. On our subway ride home after seeing multiple nighttime light displays in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens a fragment of a poem on the subway created a song in my imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-1024x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-1536x1125.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-2048x1500.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-1200x879.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20-decembrance-23-1980x1451.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subway<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you fly swiftly underground<br>with a song in your ears<br>or lost in the maze of a book,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">remember the ones who descended here<br>into the mire of bedrock<br>to bore a hole through this granite,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to clear a passage for you<br>where there was only darkness and stone.<br>Remember as you come up into the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Billy Collins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long city day full of moments of lights and memories of exhaustion. I am always surprised how the surface of a sidewalk can bring back a time and place. On our subway ride home after seeing multiple nighttime light displays in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens a fragment of a poem on the [&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-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","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=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}