{"id":1209,"date":"2024-08-26T16:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:25:47","slug":"walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/26\/walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem139.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem139.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem139-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem139-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Walls are designed to divide space.<br>Here from there.<br>Inside from out.<br>Safe and familiar<br>from dangerous and unpredictable.<br>Me from you.<br><br>I am walking up the winding staircase<br>in an old castle.<br>Castle walls are solid.<br>Really solid.<br>There is nothing metaphorical about them.<br>They are rocks and bricks and mortar,<br>built up over the centuries,<br>fortified.<br>These walls are very definite<br>about keeping things out.<br>They make me feel contained:<br>warm, wooly-headed and slightly dizzy;<br>like a sick bed &#8211;<br>I am not at my best, but there is no need to be.<br>The space of illness is small and manageable:<br>eat, drink, sleep, stay alive\u2026<br><br>There is a light at the top of the staircase,<br>it leads out onto the battlements.<br>I am tired of climbing.<br>The light at the top is too bright,<br>the space \u2013 too large,<br>the height \u2013 too vertiginous<br>and I am already dizzy\u2026<br><br>I think I will sit here,<br>rest<br>and consider my options,<br>half way between the dungeon and the battlements,<br>well within the walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walls are designed to divide space.Here from there.Inside from out.Safe and familiarfrom dangerous and unpredictable.Me from you. I am walking up the winding staircasein an old castle.Castle walls are solid.Really solid.There is nothing metaphorical about them.They are rocks and bricks and mortar,built up over the centuries,fortified.These walls are very definiteabout keeping things out.They make me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[234,23,233,15,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}