{"id":7134,"date":"2014-08-01T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T11:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2022-08-01T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:52:52","slug":"august-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7134","title":{"rendered":"August Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Albert Garcia in celebration of the poignant, brief-and-boundless late summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AugustSunfish-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9349\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AugustSunfish-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AugustSunfish-1.png 500w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AugustSunfish-1-300x295.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ripe, the melon<br \/>\nby our sink. Yellow,<br \/>\nbee-bitten, soft, it perfumes<br \/>\nthe house too sweetly.<br \/>\nAt five I wake, the air<br \/>\nmournful in its quiet.<br \/>\nMy wife\u2019s eyes swim calmly<br \/>\nunder their lids, her mouth and jaw<br \/>\nrelaxed, different.<br \/>\nWhat is happening in the silence<br \/>\nof this house? Curtains<br \/>\nhang heavily from their rods.<br \/>\nFicus leaves tremble<br \/>\nat my footsteps. Yet<br \/>\nthe colors outside are perfect&#8211;<br \/>\norange geranium, blue lobelia.<br \/>\nI wander from room to room<br \/>\nlike a man in a museum:<br \/>\nwife, children, books, flowers,<br \/>\nmelon. Such still air. Soon<br \/>\nthe mid-morning breeze will float in<br \/>\nlike tepid water, then hot.<br \/>\nHow do I start this day,<br \/>\nI who am unsure<br \/>\nof how my life has happened<br \/>\nor how to proceed<br \/>\namid this warm and steady sweetness?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Albert Garcia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/CakeSun.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7135\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/CakeSun.png\" alt=\"CakeSun\" width=\"125\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>Francine<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Albert Garcia in celebration of the poignant, brief-and-boundless late summer. It\u2019s ripe, the melon by our sink. Yellow, bee-bitten, soft, it perfumes the house too sweetly. At five I wake, the air mournful in its quiet. My wife\u2019s eyes swim calmly under their lids, her mouth and jaw relaxed, different. What is<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7134\">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":[32,136,17,95,3],"class_list":["post-7134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-bear","tag-boat","tag-penink","tag-sea","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134","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=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}