{"id":1217,"date":"2024-08-26T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:33:48","slug":"the-girl-and-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/26\/the-girl-and-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"The girl and the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem143.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem143.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem143-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem143-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The world you know is inside your head.<br>By definition.<br>Snug and warm inside.<br>Your room, your toys, your books, your lamp &#8211;<br>as always lit with dim and cozy light,<br>the outside reflected and repeated,<br>a melody with no discordant notes<br>to irritate or frighten.<br>Rhythm of life.<br>And then, there is the sea.<br>It&#8217;s just as rhythmic,<br>but outside.<br>Emphatically foreign,<br>indifferent, ineffable, intruding &#8211;<br>intriguing and frightening.<br>It&#8217;s here.<br>Its presence undeniable,<br>its noise &#8211;<br>persistent, if not loud.<br>It is here.<br>You have a choice:<br>retreat or take a dive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world you know is inside your head.By definition.Snug and warm inside.Your room, your toys, your books, your lamp &#8211;as always lit with dim and cozy light,the outside reflected and repeated,a melody with no discordant notesto irritate or frighten.Rhythm of life.And then, there is the sea.It&#8217;s just as rhythmic,but outside.Emphatically foreign,indifferent, ineffable, intruding &#8211;intriguing and [&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":[55,237,23,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"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=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}