{"id":2139,"date":"2010-06-23T20:10:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2010-06-23T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:11:47","slug":"of-tornadoes-and-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/2139","title":{"rendered":"Of tornadoes and silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/4728583239\/#\/photos\/sholeh\/4728583239\/lightbox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1016\/4728583239_c3bccd7fa9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">after the storm is this, the lingering headache and colors<br \/>\nI run through the thundering waters<br \/>\nthe sky&#8217;s tears, the sky&#8217;s laughter<br \/>\nthe steady beat tapping out<br \/>\ntoo soon subsiding in exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">wait, wait! In every tiny reflection, in every color<br \/>\nwe wait, wait with every breath held back<br \/>\nmy feverish pen halts, my feverish thoughts dim<br \/>\nhold hands up to the storm<br \/>\nfingers intertwined, in sudden silence.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xOd9zWdH2dQ\" target=\"_blank\">this is in the background&#8230;<\/a>)<\/em><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I saw the sky on fire through my kitchen window tonight, and grabbed my camera.\u00c2\u00a0 The wind had died to nothing, the world was silent, and the clouds were running away.\u00c2\u00a0 What beauty!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after the storm is this, the lingering headache and colors I run through the thundering waters the sky&#8217;s tears, the sky&#8217;s laughter the steady beat tapping out too soon subsiding in exhaustion. wait, wait! In every tiny reflection, in every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}