{"id":70821,"date":"2020-06-27T20:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70821"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:29:58","slug":"ominous-weather-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/ominous-weather-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Ominous Weather Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strange upshot of the pandemic is that it<br \/>\nhas interfered with my novel-reading. It holds<br \/>\nso much of my attention, via constant updates, that nothing<br \/>\nelse seems to have priority. My constant wish for more<br \/>\ntime is ridiculous. What can be more fruitless than<br \/>\nasking more of what life can give? Better wish for an<br \/>\neffective and inexpensive vaccine. What expanse<br \/>\nof fictionless evenings can be damaging? Months of<br \/>\nonly reading reviews, not actual novels is a desolate<br \/>\nprospect. Are novels teaching me another life lesson via their absence?<\/p>\n<p>(This is a Golden Shovel. The final words in each line read as the last sentence of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel by Hiromi Kawakami.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange upshot of the pandemic is that it has interfered with my novel-reading. It holds so much of my attention, via constant updates, that nothing else seems to have priority. My constant wish for more time is ridiculous. What can be more fruitless than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71061,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70821\/revisions\/71061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}