{"id":1361,"date":"2017-01-27T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2017-01-27T17:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:55:52","slug":"january-20-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"January 20, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Air-Space-e1485528578686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Air-Space-e1485528578686.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Air-Space-e1485528578686.jpg 2016w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Air-Space-e1485528578686-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Air-Space-e1485528578686-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Air-Space-e1485528578686-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January 20<\/p>\n<p>Something is happening back in Washington,<br \/>\nthough we are 40,000 feet above the Mediterranean.<br \/>\nWe are rising high, the scalloped<br \/>\nedge of the Holy Land a mere hem below,<br \/>\nthrough unraveling skeins of clouds,<br \/>\nthe hush unearthly.<\/p>\n<p>It is 18:30, late day rays spreading,<br \/>\njust another day ending.\u00a0 Look! &#8211; I gasp &#8211;<br \/>\nthe liquid fuchsia in the<br \/>\nuntouchable distance<\/p>\n<p>(while seven hours back, he<br \/>\nis laying his small hand on his family Bible)<\/p>\n<p>That red lake of light pooled in the clouds!<br \/>\nClearly not the devil\u2019s stirring pot &#8211;<br \/>\ntoo beautiful.\u00a0 No sinners turned upside down<br \/>\nno naked bodies skinned<br \/>\nalthough we don\u2019t have our binoculars handy.<\/p>\n<p>18:45; 19:00.\u00a0 The tide is turning.<br \/>\nHe wrests the podium.\u00a0 Fans are<br \/>\nmagnified in his mind.\u00a0 Although we are in<br \/>\nLebanese airspace, soon over Turkey, we can<br \/>\npractically see the spottiness of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>In Rome, the Tiber is misting moodily,<br \/>\nParis birds are skittering gaily<br \/>\nin the frozen fountains of the Tuilleries.<br \/>\nNo matter where we are<br \/>\n(40,000 feet above the Mediterranean),<br \/>\nthe world is spinning madly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20 Something is happening back in Washington, though we are 40,000 feet above the Mediterranean. We are rising high, the scalloped edge of the Holy Land a mere hem below, through unraveling skeins of clouds, the hush unearthly. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[530,529,534,131,15],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inauguration","tag-trump","tag-flying","tag-paris","tag-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-lX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}