{"id":461,"date":"2009-06-25T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:11:43","slug":"clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cloudswithoak.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351066442710423570\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cloudswithoak-300x191.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>All afternoon, Sir,<br \/>your ambassadors have been turning<br \/>into lakes and rivers.<br \/>At first they were just clouds, like any other.<br \/>Then they swelled and swirled; then they hung very still;<br \/>then they broke open. This is, I suppose,<br \/>just one of the common miracles,<br \/>a transformation, not a vision,<br \/>not an answer, not a proof, but I put it<br \/>there, close against my heart, where the need is, and it serves<\/p>\n<p>the purpose. I go on, soaked through, my hair<br \/>slicked back;<br \/>like corn, or wheat, shining and useful.<br \/><\/em><br \/><em>Clouds<\/em> by Mary Oliver<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it&#8217;d been raining for a month straight when Mary Oliver wrote this poem.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The sky cleared early this evening and the light was just gorgeous the way it lit up the tips of the oak leaves, the white of the kingbird&#8217;s tail feathers, the sand at the edge of the ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All afternoon, Sir,your ambassadors have been turninginto lakes and rivers.At first they were just clouds, like any other.Then they swelled and swirled; then they hung very still;then they broke open. This is, I suppose,just one of the common miracles,a transformation, not a vision,not an answer, not a proof, but I put itthere, close against my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clouds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}