{"id":2225,"date":"2014-04-03T22:56:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2014-04-03T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T04:05:30","slug":"3-theres-a-trick-to-painting-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"3. There&#8217;s a Trick to Painting Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(I filled 15 more pages with words today, but none of them rang true; so I&#8217;m posting this instead)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why is it easier to find<br \/>\nspace between the notes<br \/>\ninside the storm&#8217;s tumult<br \/>\nthan in a quiet room?<\/p>\n<p>They say she found God<br \/>\non a bus to Baltimore<br \/>\namidst the screaming<br \/>\nchildren, drunks, &#038; hairpin<br \/>\nturns, crammed into<br \/>\na brown and orange seat,<br \/>\nknees locked, lips dry,<br \/>\nstale air and candy wrappers<br \/>\nproclaiming a landscape<br \/>\nlong since abandoned to fate.<\/p>\n<p>True revelations, they say,<br \/>\nnever come when called;<br \/>\nlike grass and dandelions<br \/>\nthey only grow<br \/>\nwhere they&#8217;re not wanted.<\/p>\n<p>How then, to map the bubbles<br \/>\nin the frothed milk,<br \/>\nthe correlation between<br \/>\nthe ripples in the pressed tin ceiling?<\/p>\n<p>Where, then, the magic<br \/>\nelixir, the skeleton key<br \/>\nto unlock the hidden passages,<br \/>\nthe junk DNA, the way<br \/>\nlight falls through a prism crack<br \/>\nin an old dusty window?<\/p>\n<p><em>(partial transcription from Patchwork Journal &#8211; T.H.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I filled 15 more pages with words today, but none of them rang true; so I&#8217;m posting this instead) Why is it easier to find space between the notes inside the storm&#8217;s tumult than in a quiet room? They say &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2225\">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":[891],"tags":[903,904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225"}],"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=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}