{"id":14042,"date":"2016-03-29T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T05:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2016-03-29T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T05:18:56","slug":"in-the-days-before-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=14042","title":{"rendered":"In the Days Before April"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the days before poems, we asked the sky<br \/>\nwhat shall we do with all these bright, loose words?<br \/>\nwhat did we know in those innocent days<br \/>\nwords running like streams around our ankles.<\/p>\n<p>In the days before poems, we only knew<br \/>\nthe pleasures of picking up the shiny,<br \/>\nthe glittering word, the sparkling phrase<br \/>\nholding it lightly, letting it go free.<\/p>\n<p>In those days before poems, when all the words<br \/>\nswam in the sky, sang in the night, and laughed<br \/>\noh how they laughed in the long days and days<br \/>\nwe breathed in their joy, stroked their shadows.<\/p>\n<p>In the days before poems, showers of words,<br \/>\nblessed with words, frozen in words, killed by words<br \/>\npressed words, fed words, mouthing the syllables<br \/>\ncasting and tossing the words, we begin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thinking about April and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\" target=\"_blank\">NaPoWriMo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days before poems, we asked the sky \u2022<br \/>\nwhat shall we do with all these bright, loose words? <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=14042\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12,13,65,147,51],"tags":[202,541,105,192],"class_list":["post-14042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deadlines","category-do-the-work","category-napowrimo","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-the-creative-process","tag-dothework","tag-napowrimo","tag-poetry","tag-process"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3Eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14045,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions\/14045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}