{"id":1879,"date":"2019-03-24T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:12","slug":"riding-the-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2019\/03\/24\/riding-the-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/christmas-cold-friends-269370-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/christmas-cold-friends-269370-cropped-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1880\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Riding the high<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The transfer of heat from one to another<br \/>\nis a cold, acidic, rigid form of greeting<\/p>\n<p>The firm but gentle comfort of an embrace<br \/>\nbrings acceptance, appreciation, belonging<\/p>\n<p>It turns the world upside down<br \/>\nrelaxes you<br \/>\ncarries joy<br \/>\ndissolves the world around you<br \/>\ninto a crepuscular ray of humanity<\/p>\n<p>They say a good hug<br \/>\nlasts at least 20 seconds<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\na good hug lasts<br \/>\nas long as it needs to<br \/>\nand leaves you<br \/>\nriding high<br \/>\nfor the rest of the day<\/p>\n<p><em>Written 19 February 2019<\/em><\/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":[152,199,284,285],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-friendship","tag-joy","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","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=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}