{"id":2660,"date":"2020-10-20T07:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:07","slug":"winter-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2020\/10\/20\/winter-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leaves-at-Red-Cloud-Butte-Trail-DSC_1867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Leaves-at-Red-Cloud-Butte-Trail-DSC_1867.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Soon the air will be still<br \/>\nThe bugs have gone away<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s getting dark early<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s quiet outside<\/p>\n<p>I put on my long-sleeve blue and maroon jersey<br \/>\ncover it with my black flannel shirt with yellow stripes<br \/>\nand put on my dark, plaid Sherpa-lined jacket<br \/>\nI cover my head with a gray McLaren cap before stepping outside<\/p>\n<p>Fresh, undisturbed snow surrounds me<br \/>\nCold air gently caresses my face<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s fresher this morning<br \/>\nand I feel alive<\/p>\n<p>I hike through the thickly covered trails<br \/>\nThere is a still silence as the flakes continue to fall<br \/>\nAmbient noises that would normally travel far<br \/>\nare dampened today on the Red Cloud Butte Trail<\/p>\n<p>Tree branches catch the snow<br \/>\ncushioning each flake&#8217;s fall<br \/>\nI close my eyes<br \/>\nand breath in the silence<\/p>\n<p>The calm continues throughout the day<br \/>\nside by side with the falling snow<br \/>\nI am alone here in this holy place<br \/>\nwhere winter is on its way<\/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":[149,254,285,399],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-fort-robinson","tag-nebraska","tag-poetry","tag-winter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","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=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}