{"id":1613,"date":"2018-10-27T05:51:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","slug":"and-the-rains-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2018\/10\/27\/and-the-rains-came\/","title":{"rendered":"And the rains came"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/action-bicycle-bike-763398-pexels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/action-bicycle-bike-763398-pexels-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1614\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sky turned gray<br \/>\nthe air cooled<br \/>\nthe pitter-patter of droplets echoed<br \/>\noff the tin a\/c unit outside<\/p>\n<p>The anxiety-ridden folks smile<br \/>\nthis gloom<br \/>\nis a comfort<\/p>\n<p>The pluviophile finds joy<br \/>\npeace of mind<br \/>\nin the tranquil, clear beads<\/p>\n<p>The clouds loomed overhead<br \/>\nand the rains came<br \/>\ngentle at first<br \/>\nthen a torrent of serenity<\/p>\n<p>Aggression disappeared<br \/>\nthe world slows<br \/>\na walk outside settles the turmoil within<\/p>\n<p>The sounds of water<br \/>\ncaressing the cheek<br \/>\ngently kissing skin<br \/>\nlook up<br \/>\nand feel it all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[276,303,353],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-photos","tag-rain","tag-storm"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}