{"id":2560,"date":"2007-04-13T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:23","slug":"poetry-before-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2560","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Before Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 269px; height: 216px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.ca\/obj\/015020\/f1\/nlc000571-v6.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/> FOG<\/p>\n<p>The fog comes<br \/>on little cat feet.<\/p>\n<p>It sits looking<br \/>over harbor and city<br \/>on silent haunches<br \/>and then moves on.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Sandburg<\/p>\n<p>This is a cute little book about a fleeting friendship &#8212; one day a cat came to stay, and then it went away, leaving gifts behind like cats, fogs, and friendships do.<\/p>\n<p>I remember this poem from the fourth grade, where we learned to say onomatopoeia. Sadly, it took until college to remember how to spell it.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgeoftheforest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the latest Edge of the Forest<\/a>. I&#8217;m seeing double now, but I will be sure to give it a thorough read tomorrow&#8230; especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgeoftheforest.com\/adayinthelife.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">A Day in the Life<\/a>, which features novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenmyracle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Myracle<\/a> of text-message novel fame, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgeoftheforest.com\/feature3.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils<\/a> recap (but no hints on this year&#8217;s &#8211; the jury is still out!), and the piece on reading and teaching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgeoftheforest.com\/feature2.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Mortal Engines<\/i> in Dubai<\/a>&#8230; some really great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOG The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. Carl Sandburg This is a cute&#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":[15,10],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","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=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}