{"id":2217,"date":"2020-01-12T03:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T10:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","slug":"the-old-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2020\/01\/12\/the-old-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The old things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/earth-desert-dry-hot-60013-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/earth-desert-dry-hot-60013-cropped-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2218\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Old Things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\njumping through colored leaves<br \/>\nhours of raking<br \/>\nseconds of dispersal<br \/>\nhiding below the remnants<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nwalk across an empty field<br \/>\ngrass as tall as me<br \/>\ngently swaying in the wind<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nsitting at the edge of the rocky river<br \/>\ntadpoles and trout dart back and forth<br \/>\nin the crystal clear water<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nsticking out my tongue on a cold winter&#8217;s day<br \/>\ncatching snowflakes and magic<br \/>\ndrifting down from the sky<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nwhen the world is silent after a fresh snow<br \/>\nplows push towers of white powder toward the sky<br \/>\nin the Caldor plaza<br \/>\nonly \u201cI&#8217;m king of the mountain\u201d can be heard<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nstomping through mud puddles<br \/>\ndirty water splashing into the air<br \/>\nlaughing with glee<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nthe hush renewal after a rainstorm<br \/>\nmoving earthworms<br \/>\nfrom near death on sidewalks and streets<br \/>\nto grass and dirt, and survival<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nclimbing upon a fallen tree<br \/>\ninvisible lightsaber, invisible enemy<br \/>\nparrying back and forth<br \/>\nsunlight illuminating me through the lush, green canopy<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things<br \/>\nhanging on a branch in my favorite tree<br \/>\none arm wrapped around the trunk<br \/>\na simple breeze, blowing through my hair<br \/>\nwatching the world go by<\/p>\n<p>I miss the old things that brought me joy<br \/>\na time apart from the world<br \/>\nI close my eyes, go there again<br \/>\nthe old things live inside me<\/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":[76,257,285,340],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-childhood","tag-new-york","tag-poetry","tag-solitude"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}