{"id":2347,"date":"2007-09-14T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:20","slug":"poetry-friday-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/RuqNxOx8xBI\/AAAAAAAAAMU\/Op-solo-lEA\/s1600-h\/poetryfridaysun.png\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 align=right src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/poetryfridaysun.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>Today Glasgow is doing its usual dramatic dance of clear skies and whipping wind and clouds. Several natives have volunteered the information that Glasgow has four seasons a day instead of that boring seasonal calendar, and I&#8217;m beginning to be convinced. I have with me a sweater, a hat, a knitted scarf, and ice water &#8212; just in case I have need of either one of them.<\/p>\n<p>This poem reminds me of one of the whimsical pieces found in a third-grade English book &#8211; one of the ones that made me wonder about things I&#8217;d never considered, and gave me yet another excuse to gaze dreamily out of a window, chewing on my eraser&#8230; boy, if that doesn&#8217;t give you the feeling of the beginning of a school year, I&#8217;m not sure what else will help you. Keep looking &#8212; the rest of Poetry Friday is over with V. at <a href=\"http:\/\/hipwritermama.blogspot.com\/\" target= _blank>HipWriterMama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next week my computer gets set up at home &#8212; huzzah. No more lurking in caf\u00e9s, although that&#8217;s been a lot of fun (and a lot of tea). Tune in next week &#8212; I&#8217;m reading a Scott Westerfeld I&#8217;d never seen before. &#8216;Parasite Positive:&#8217; could this be a UK retitle of a book we&#8217;ve already gotten in the U.S.? Or had I missed this one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Glasgow is doing its usual dramatic dance of clear skies and whipping wind and clouds. Several natives have volunteered the information that Glasgow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,10],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry-friday","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}