{"id":25006,"date":"2025-04-07T17:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=25006"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:47:08","slug":"napowrimo-2025-day-7-and-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=25006","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 7 (and 5-6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warez MB, you might have been asking.  Find the answer <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHBqjC82QM\" title=\"Hands Off Protest in DC\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> It was a long tiring Day 5 but I came home invigorated but needing a lot of sleep on Day 6.<\/p>\n<p>Day 5:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hurtling bus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Predawn gathering<br \/>\nEmpty parking lot fills up<br \/>\nAngry citizens<\/p>\n<p>Bus flies down highway<br \/>\nSleeping, chattering riders<br \/>\nThe sky lightens<\/p>\n<p>Long time between votes<br \/>\nDays filled with protests and calls<br \/>\nEndlessly ignored<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Day seven:<\/p>\n<p>first these, weather-related<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>cold air slides over<br \/>\ndropping down a variable load<br \/>\nnow snow and now rain<\/p>\n<p>right at freezing point<br \/>\nthe water drops hang on twigs<br \/>\nrain drops might be snow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and then these, sort of related to the prompt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>inside this paintbox<br \/>\nthe colors ready to go<br \/>\nbig brush hovering<\/p>\n<p>while I look at light<br \/>\nand consider value and<br \/>\nwhat my focus is<\/p>\n<p>the paper is waiting<br \/>\nthe paint blobs absorb water<br \/>\nI absorb the scene<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/paint_haiku.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/paint_haiku.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: watercolor painting of a cat crouched on table with tail extending behind, looking out window.  although it&#039;s really a black cat his fur was seen as dark gray and light. To the left of the horizontal painting is the watercolor paintbox, vertical in the scene, with areas of color around the edge and two mixing areas in the middle. Above, an array of brushes in a black roll up holder point down at the painting.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/paint_haiku.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/paint_haiku-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/paint_haiku-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the paper is waiting \u2022 the paint blobs absorb water \u2022 I absorb the scene <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=25006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25007,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[9,13,63,144,65,147,841,310,621,51,740],"tags":[1337,926,202,539,541,105,192,465,1266],"class_list":["post-25006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cats-helpful-cats","category-do-the-work","category-haiku","category-life-around-us","category-napowrimo","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-resist","category-ripped-from-the-headlines","category-taking-time-to-look","category-the-creative-process","category-watercolor","tag-blackcap","tag-cat","tag-dothework","tag-haiku","tag-napowrimo","tag-poetry","tag-process","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolor-painting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@mbfrezon\/114298871748642153","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/paint_haiku.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-6vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25006","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=25006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25009,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25006\/revisions\/25009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}