{"id":3499,"date":"2017-07-31T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:19:13","slug":"a-sky-too-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/a-sky-too-small\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sky Too Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow limps on ahead of me,<br \/>\nsun warming my back,<br \/>\nas I walk up to the high point<br \/>\nin the middle of the open field;<br \/>\nshe\u2019s asleep in bed, dreaming<br \/>\nof shedding all her ragged clothes<br \/>\nas she walks back into the garden.<br \/>\nThe soybean is just about calf-high,<br \/>\nand there\u2019s a dead tree in the front yard<br \/>\nof the abandoned white house<br \/>\nat the end of the road. A young couple<br \/>\nhas been spending weekends there,<br \/>\ncleaning it up, hauling out black bags<br \/>\nof trash. Last weekend they began<br \/>\npainting it a bright Tibetan blue,<br \/>\nthe color of the endless sky \u2014<br \/>\na sky too small to hold all the love<br \/>\nwe\u2019ve found in our oft-broken hearts.<br \/>\nI\u2019m glad those kids haven\u2019t chainsawed<br \/>\nthat old tree yet. Maybe they\u2019ll wait.<br \/>\nMaybe, it\u2019ll bloom again next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow limps on ahead of me, sun warming my back, as I walk up to the high point in the middle of the open field; she\u2019s asleep in bed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}