{"id":2212,"date":"2020-07-19T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T17:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:50:19","slug":"covid-19-summer-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"covid-19, summer-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6442-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6442-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6442-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6442-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6442-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6442-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;after Inger Christensen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid exists.\u00a0 Covid-19 exists, summer-20 exists.\u00a0 High noon exists.\u00a0 Heat exists.\u00a0 Water in rivers, in seas, in showers, from fire hydrants exists.\u00a0 Coves exist.\u00a0 Hidden lanes of purple hydrangea exist.\u00a0 Overturned bones of kayaks.\u00a0 Smoothness of stones, stones, pebbles irreducible pebbles exist.\u00a0 Marsh grasses like glissando on a piano.\u00a0 Poison ivy exists. \u00a0Bodies in hospitals exist.\u00a0 Grief exists. \u00a0Shadows and data and systems, bindweed and drifting boats, errors and interpretation.\u00a0 Brutality exists.  Bridges, from a distance, from other islands.  A breeze laying traces of a fishnet on the waves.\u00a0 Wildness, wilderness, wildness exists. \u00a0 Light that has never been the same since the beginning of time exists.  A swimmer\u2019s ecstasy exists.\u00a0 A swimmer exists as she swims through that moment\u2019s infinity. \u00a0Festivity exists only because of the possibility that it might not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6475-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6475-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6475-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6475-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6475-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6475-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;after Inger Christensen Covid exists.\u00a0 Covid-19 exists, summer-20 exists.\u00a0 High noon exists.\u00a0 Heat exists.\u00a0 Water in rivers, in seas, in showers, from fire hydrants exists.\u00a0 Coves exist.\u00a0 Hidden lanes of purple hydrangea exist.\u00a0 Overturned bones of kayaks.\u00a0 Smoothness of stones, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2212\">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":[992,957,993,991,138,990,293],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alphabet","tag-covid-19","tag-festivity","tag-inger-christensen","tag-poetry","tag-rhode-island","tag-summer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-zG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","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=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}