{"id":4934,"date":"2024-05-27T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2024-05-27T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T23:19:40","slug":"may-snow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/may-snow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Call it a fluke.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A sudden storm in spring<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">has weighed green boughs down,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">buried young shoots under.<br \/>\n<\/span>A crust crushes<br \/>\nthe growing germ.<\/p>\n<p>Call it memory,<br \/>\niridescent flashes<br \/>\nblown off laden branches,<br \/>\na flush of sun<br \/>\nwhich limns the ashes.<\/p>\n<p>Where there was a clump<br \/>\nof grass, emeralds<br \/>\nglitter in the slush.<br \/>\nFor the instant it lasts<br \/>\na flake glints on my lashes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">***<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">it \u00a0can happen. In fact it did in the early seventies, except I can&#8217;t remember if it was in Edmonton or Montreal.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it a fluke. A sudden storm in spring has weighed green boughs down, buried young shoots under. A crust crushes the growing germ. Call it memory, iridescent flashes blown off laden branches, a flush of sun which limns the ashes. Where there was a clump of grass, emeralds glitter in the slush. For the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/may-snow-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May Snow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}