{"id":252,"date":"2014-06-20T04:07:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T04:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-06-20T04:07:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T04:07:53","slug":"shadowing-my-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Shadowing my Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-43-e1403236853929.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-43-e1403236853929.jpg\" alt=\"photo-43\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-43-e1403236853929.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-43-e1403236853929-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am shadowing my shadow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an odd situation, one I&#8217;m not used to, but yes, I follow behind and cannot catch up.\u00a0 I see my shadow legs stretching far ahead; no matter how I scurry, the stick legs slide along the pavement, getting longer and longer.\u00a0 Only my body stands in the way of them and the sun which has appeared at a slant behind me.<\/p>\n<p>I am short, and my shadow is as long as a stork with a feathered body.<\/p>\n<p>I am feeling different.\u00a0 My body becomes lighter with every step.\u00a0 I might fly.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think this is foreshadowing, an intimation that I&#8217;ll turn into a bird.\u00a0 I feel mischievous, stepping on the edge of its feet as it races just beyond my reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am shadowing my shadow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an odd situation, one I&#8217;m not used to, but yes, I follow behind and cannot catch up.\u00a0 I see my shadow legs stretching far ahead; no matter how I scurry, the stick legs slide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=252\">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":[21,20,19],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-light","tag-shadow","tag-short-short"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-44","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}