{"id":2872,"date":"2024-01-20T09:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T14:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2024-01-20T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T14:31:26","slug":"snow-day-december-19th-2024-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day, December 19th, 2024, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snow Day, December 19th, 2024<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having devoted so much of their lives<br \/>\nto contemplation, sometimes trees fall on houses.<br \/>\nThe person who maps out graveyards<\/p>\n<p>goes home each night to his candles and books of Rilke.<br \/>\nHow many of our meanderings have been<br \/>\nunder the buzzard\u2019s gaze?<\/p>\n<p>The grandfather\u2019s headstone absorbs so much<br \/>\nstillness it becomes it\u2019s own winter.<br \/>\nWho among us carries an unruffled heart?<\/p>\n<p>And how long can the wear and tear of the mountains<br \/>\ngo on? There\u2019s no locking the door to regrets,<br \/>\nand no guarding secrets from the ceiling, the kitchen table,<\/p>\n<p>or the refrigerator\u2019s hum. Listen, Radiance, there\u2019s nothing<br \/>\nto attain, and why shut the gates to desire?<br \/>\nOne day the envelope of your body will open<\/p>\n<p>sending unfinished love letters into the sky. Why not<br \/>\nfinish them now, and send them winging<br \/>\nto their rightful owner\u2019s door?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.217.43\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Snow Day, December 19th, 2024 by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Having devoted so much of their lives to contemplation, sometimes trees fall on houses. The person who maps out graveyards goes home each night to his candles and books of Rilke. How many of our meanderings have been under the buzzard\u2019s gaze? The grandfather\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}