{"id":1249,"date":"2024-08-29T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2024-08-29T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:54:56","slug":"girls-horses-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/29\/girls-horses-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls, horses, cracks\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem159.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem159.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem159-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem159-768x565.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictures are more ambiguous than words<br>and that is their attraction.<br><br>If I say, &#8216;girls, horses, cracks in your window on the world,&#8217;<br>it is just a phrase.<br>Too trite.<br>Too didactic.<br>Too empty.<br>I can pad it out a bit,<br>but there is still too much me<br>and too little you.<br><br>But the picture invites you to enter.<br>It has a smoky room with a warm glow of companionship,<br>the mounting excitement of expectations,<br>the exhilaration of the win,<br>the emptiness of loss,<br>unarticulated similarities between sex and betting,<br>an articulated sense of defeat.<br>It has voids to be filled and cracks to be expanded or patched up.<br>Fill the void and there is no room for excitement.<br>Patch up the cracks and your view through the window is obscured further.<br>But the alternative is to remain cracked and unfulfilled\u2026<br><br>So much more in the picture:<br>more feelings,<br>more ideas,<br>even more words.<br>But also more work.<br>Ambiguity gives you all that you are willing to put into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures are more ambiguous than wordsand that is their attraction. If I say, &#8216;girls, horses, cracks in your window on the world,&#8217;it is just a phrase.Too trite.Too didactic.Too empty.I can pad it out a bit,but there is still too much meand too little you. But the picture invites you to enter.It has a smoky room [&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":[254,17,253,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"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=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}