{"id":899,"date":"2006-07-03T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T09:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/899"},"modified":"2007-10-04T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T06:55:46","slug":"sand-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/899","title":{"rendered":"Sand memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>Feet sinking in the worn-down rocks<br \/>\nWhen was the last time<br \/>\nWe felt sea foam around our ankles?<br \/>\nI still think that I can spend sand dollars<br \/>\nAnd get change.<br \/>\nSpiny horseshoe crabs<br \/>\nare banned from the car<br \/>\n(sensitive noses, you see).Why is it that<br \/>\nI used to feel so much closer to the ground?<br \/>\nIf I kneel it isn&#8217;t the same<br \/>\nBuried in seagull wings and screams<br \/>\nOur ears assaulted<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll take refuge in the waves.<\/p>\n<p>Can I promise<br \/>\nWith a caveat of sometime when?<br \/>\nThat tomorrow I&#8217;ll take your hand<br \/>\nTo walk down past the grassy dunes<br \/>\nOn the South Carolina shore?<\/p>\n<p>Since I can&#8217;t share the past with you<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll recreate past lives<br \/>\nOf 20 years gone by<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll wash out our mouths<br \/>\nWith sweet salt air.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/61\/176065226_160ab421b9.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feet sinking in the worn-down rocks When was the last time We felt sea foam around our ankles? I still think that I can spend sand dollars And get change. Spiny horseshoe crabs are banned from the car (sensitive noses,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}