{"id":905,"date":"2008-01-06T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:29:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:29:48","slug":"skater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"Skater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/skater.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152162009661672402\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/skater-199x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>&#8220;She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail<br \/>that trailed from her cap, and bright blue gloves<br \/>that she held out wide, the feathery fingers spread,<br \/>as surely she stepped, click-clack, onto the frozen<br \/>top of the world. And there, with a clatter of blades,<br \/>she began to braid a loose path that broadened<br \/>into a meadow of curls. Across the ice she swooped<br \/>and then turned back and, halfway, bent her legs<br \/>and leapt into the air the way a crane leaps, blue gloves<br \/>lifting her lightly, and turned a snappy half-turn<br \/>there in the wind before coming down, arms wide,<br \/>skating backward right out of that moment, smiling back<br \/>at the woman she&#8217;d been just an instant before.&#8221;<br \/><\/em>&#8211;Ted Kooser<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to come across a newly released book of Ted Kooser&#8217;s poetry &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Valentines-Ted-Kooser\/dp\/0803217706\/ref=dp_return_2?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books\">Valentines<\/a> &#8211; and have been challenging myself to find a new favorite of the 23 poems each day &#8211; this one is today&#8217;s favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Image by photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maion.com\/photography\/finland\/ice_skating_p7.html\">Jeff Maion<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She was all in black but for a yellow pony tailthat trailed from her cap, and bright blue glovesthat she held out wide, the feathery fingers spread,as surely she stepped, click-clack, onto the frozentop of the world. And there, with a clatter of blades,she began to braid a loose path that broadenedinto a meadow of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skater<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}