{"id":925,"date":"2024-06-04T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=925"},"modified":"2024-06-04T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:40:19","slug":"4-summer-shards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/06\/04\/4-summer-shards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#4 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am someone who always loves a lot of light. The length of June days is a welcome season. In the studio, however, now that we have so many large trees, there is a moment of grief for me when the leaves have filled out and the shade gets green deep inside the studio. This week I have been waking up just before dawn for a few minutes. I have come to love the depth of that moment of dark entered by the first early morning bird who begins to sing. It&#8217;s also the moment that wakes up Warren who rises up to close the window to muffle the imminent chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04-summer-2024-1980x1320.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bowl with cabbage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We talk so much of\u200a light, please<br>let me speak on behalf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of \u200athe good dark. Let us<br>talk more of how dark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the beginning of a day is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Maggie Smith, excerpt from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/152103\/how-dark-the-beginning\">How Dark the Beginning<\/a><\/em> in Poetry, February, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am someone who always loves a lot of light. The length of June days is a welcome season. In the studio, however, now that we have so many large trees, there is a moment of grief for me when the leaves have filled out and the shade gets green deep inside the studio. This [&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-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}