{"id":2019,"date":"2012-10-20T21:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T02:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2012-10-20T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T02:52:26","slug":"12-days-til-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"12 Days &#8217;til November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is where we go<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>white cuts in brown skin<br \/>\nmemories of elephants in a grove<br \/>\nlong grass trampled flat<br \/>\nthis is where we go<br \/>\nto escape the endless rain<br \/>\nto find silence in the spaces<br \/>\nbetween thought and action<br \/>\nvoices numbed by hesitation<br \/>\nwhat was once a headlong rush<br \/>\nbecomes a waiting contemplation<br \/>\nsoft music behind pastoral scenes<br \/>\ndesigned to soothe and mollify<br \/>\nwe lose our conscience here<br \/>\ncut the tether of dream &#038; ambition<br \/>\nwatch them float away<br \/>\ndust motes on the wind<br \/>\nall sense of self lost<br \/>\nin the emptiness of time<br \/>\ngrasslands shiver under<br \/>\nblack star-scattered skies<br \/>\nsleep will come at last<br \/>\nwhen all has been given away<br \/>\nbut this one gift will keep<br \/>\na while yet; breathe in and out<br \/>\neyes open; we&#8217;ll suffer<br \/>\none more dawn<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; T.H. (Patchwork Journal, 05.24.11)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where we go white cuts in brown skin memories of elephants in a grove long grass trampled flat this is where we go to escape the endless rain to find silence in the spaces between thought and action &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[807,808,764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}