{"id":2155,"date":"2019-12-06T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","slug":"a-pleasant-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2019\/12\/06\/a-pleasant-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"A pleasant evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dark-lightning-night-cropped-56614.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dark-lightning-night-cropped-56614-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"472\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stretched out on the couch<br \/>\nI&#8217;m kept warm<br \/>\nunder a comfy snowflake blanket<br \/>\non a chilly evening<br \/>\nwhen the rains came<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>wind gusts indicate category one<br \/>\nbut hurricanes don&#8217;t form<br \/>\nin this part of the country<\/p>\n<p>the sound of rain and wind<br \/>\nrefreshing<br \/>\nsoothing<br \/>\nas the night goes on<\/p>\n<p>the torrent of water distorts the view outside<br \/>\na chill is in the air<br \/>\nthe sky, in full view<\/p>\n<p>shut out the noises of modernity<br \/>\nlisten to the songs<br \/>\nthe rain and wind are playing for you<\/p>\n<p>small hail pinging on objects soft and hard<br \/>\na familiar tune on the Great Plains<br \/>\nlightning dances across the sky<br \/>\nvibrant, naked, assuasive <\/p>\n<p>rain spurts from engorged gutters<br \/>\nwind blows drizzling rain onto the faces<br \/>\nof those outside<\/p>\n<p>in the autumn rain<br \/>\nthe dying embers of sunset<br \/>\ndisappear into gray<\/p>\n<p>the soft, white noise<br \/>\nof dreams outside<br \/>\nthe background of childhood<br \/>\nI smile<br \/>\nclose my eyes<br \/>\nand drift to sleep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stretched out on the couch I&#8217;m kept warm under a comfy snowflake blanket on a chilly evening when the rains came<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[252,254,285,303],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nebraska","category-poetry","tag-nature","tag-nebraska","tag-poetry","tag-rain"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","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=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}