{"id":2531,"date":"2021-08-01T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2021-08-01T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:57:04","slug":"the-thinginess-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"The Thinginess of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN0996-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN0996-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2532\" width=\"541\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN0996-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN0996-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN0996-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN0996-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSCN0996-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An August Sunday in the city \u2014&nbsp; empty, empty, empty.&nbsp; The streets are clearer, blacker, more asphalty, an open stage, an asphalt canvas.&nbsp; Things, so subsurvient to people, step up their presence and shine.  The shopping bag is always heavier than the slim arm of the walker whose shorts seem longer than his legs. &nbsp; Orange day lilies have their heady moment, erupting through scrabbly soil and gravelly roadsides; they earn their nicknames \u2014 outhouse day lily, roadside, railroad, ditch, washhouse, mailbox, tiger, tawny.&nbsp; The posts of street lights commune with trees.&nbsp; The bike dreams the leisurely biker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reminds me of the older version of boredom that used to be baked into summer \u2014 good boredom, a chance for something else to erupt through the hard-wired, conquesting surface of\u00a0 the year\u2019s ambitions. \u00a0 Reverie and its twin, ennui, will get edged out by extreme weather, health, plagues, breakdowns, etc.\u00a0 An air current lazing through a screen door, undeterred, unhampered is good work if you can get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An August Sunday in the city \u2014&nbsp; empty, empty, empty.&nbsp; The streets are clearer, blacker, more asphalty, an open stage, an asphalt canvas.&nbsp; Things, so subsurvient to people, step up their presence and shine. The shopping bag is always heavier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2531\">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":[1139],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-summer-in-the-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-EP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","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=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}