{"id":6981,"date":"2014-02-01T07:58:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2014-02-02T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:52:41","slug":"february-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=6981","title":{"rendered":"February ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new month, and a poem for this day by Marge Piercy.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Feb1Icicles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6983\" alt=\"Feb1Icicles\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Feb1Icicles.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Feb1Icicles.png 500w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Feb1Icicles-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Feb1Icicles-298x300.png 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Three feet of snow in twenty-four hours<br \/>\non top of seven inches. Not really<br \/>\ncredible here. On the fourth day<br \/>\nwe found the car under a six<br \/>\nfoot drift and dug it out.<\/p>\n<p>At first we could not open doors.<br \/>\nThe post office shut for two days.<br \/>\nOur road had vanished into a field.<br \/>\nWe felt the sky had finally<br \/>\nfallen and drowned us.<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks: now patches of ground<br \/>\nemerge from white fortresses.<br \/>\nHow beautiful is the dirt<br \/>\nI took for granted. Extraordinary<br \/>\nthe wild green of grass islands.<\/p>\n<p>Having the world snatched<br \/>\nfrom us makes us grateful even<br \/>\nfor fence posts, for wheelbarrow<br \/>\nrising, for the stalwart spears<br \/>\nof daffodil uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>Everything revealed is magical,<br \/>\nsplendid in its ordinary shining.<br \/>\nThe sun gives birth to rosebushes,<br \/>\nthe myrtle, a snow shovel fallen,<br \/>\novercome on the field of battle.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Marge Piercy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CakeYellowRoses2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6982\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" alt=\"CakeYellowRoses2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CakeYellowRoses2.png\" width=\"125\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>Dawn<\/p>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new month, and a poem for this day by Marge Piercy. Three feet of snow in twenty-four hours on top of seven inches. Not really credible here. On the fourth day we found the car under a six foot drift and dug it out. At first we could not open doors. The post office<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=6981\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[44,17,19,3,18],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-bird","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-watercolor","tag-winter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}