{"id":2571,"date":"2021-09-26T19:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2021-09-26T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T20:04:25","slug":"with-barely-a-whisper-the-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"With barely a whisper, the cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heaving-hydrangeas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heaving-hydrangeas-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2572\" width=\"542\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heaving-hydrangeas-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heaving-hydrangeas-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heaving-hydrangeas-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heaving-hydrangeas-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heaving-hydrangeas.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With barely a whisper the cicadas<br \/>bid adieu and disappear&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>last week, we were drowning in tomatoes<br \/>fringing with scissors the basil<br \/>stirred by their rising symphony\u00a0<br \/>like rowdy children they were heard but not seen<br \/>the electric body, the buzz on the ear\u2019s horizon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the last guests to leave the wedding\u00a0<br \/>trance-drunk on their own exhilaration<br \/>they drop from the circle dance\u00a0<br \/>or crawl out on all fours<br \/>little death then death death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>their curved line suspended<br \/>by the dry cough of trees<br \/>the schism of sun warmth and breeze<br \/>pure fidelity goes underground<br \/>the open earth breathes deep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With barely a whisper the cicadasbid adieu and disappear&nbsp; last week, we were drowning in tomatoesfringing with scissors the basilstirred by their rising symphony\u00a0like rowdy children they were heard but not seenthe electric body, the buzz on the ear\u2019s horizon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2571\">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":[1157,1006,1156,625,888,69],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-change-of-season","tag-cicada","tag-cricket","tag-end-of-summer","tag-nature","tag-september-song"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}