{"id":2784,"date":"2022-04-24T19:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:26:50","slug":"ambiguity-thy-name-is-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguity, Thy name is Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eve-Spring-All-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eve-Spring-All-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2785\" width=\"350\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eve-Spring-All-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eve-Spring-All-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eve-Spring-All-rotated.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAmbiguity is the world\u2019s condition.\u2026As a \u2018picture of reality\u2019 is it truer than any other.\u00a0 Ambiguity is.\u201d\u00a0 So says poet Charles Simic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that spirit, I submit spring. &nbsp;Yes, spring is a bouquet pulled and given from the dark dead closet of winter by a surprise lover \u2014&nbsp;and yes, spring is a wide sky of clotted clouds and warty trees. &nbsp;Yes, canopies of white cherry blossoms making the city street into a wedding lane, and yes, wondering if those branches that scratch the blue sky are dead or slow or what? &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes to Bermuda shorts and flipflops, yes to down vests with down parkas.&nbsp; Yes to breath-scented bacchanalia; yes to depletion and childhood colds that repeat every season. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes to People of the Book celebrating religious holidays like overlapping dinner plates; yes to fractricidal wars.&nbsp; Yes to moral imperatives that command and consume us; yes to the audaciousness of hope.&nbsp; Yes to too much, yes to breath. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmbiguity is the world\u2019s condition.\u2026As a \u2018picture of reality\u2019 is it truer than any other.\u00a0 Ambiguity is.\u201d\u00a0 So says poet Charles Simic. In that spirit, I submit spring. &nbsp;Yes, spring is a bouquet pulled and given from the dark dead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2784\">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":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-IU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}