{"id":3016,"date":"2023-03-19T20:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2023-03-19T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:37:30","slug":"the-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"The Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lands-end-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lands-end-2-1024x929.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3018\" width=\"527\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lands-end-2-1024x929.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lands-end-2-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lands-end-2-768x697.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lands-end-2-1536x1393.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lands-end-2-2048x1858.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Burgers-on-Telegraph-3-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Burgers-on-Telegraph-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3019\" width=\"570\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Burgers-on-Telegraph-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Burgers-on-Telegraph-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Burgers-on-Telegraph-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Burgers-on-Telegraph-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Burgers-on-Telegraph-3-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For three weeks, I was a guest: to different showers<br \/>And toilet flushes in the West, to coffee houses, to apps,<br \/>to rosemary as box shrub.\u00a0\u00a0A guest to my suitcase.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>To hot tubs and skin in the garden of my tiny cottage.\u00a0<br \/>Guest to stretches of blacktop like a zip, Lily Valley Church and Rainbow Donuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guest to the mirror: my daughter hosted me.&nbsp;<br \/>Hit me in the gut.&nbsp;&nbsp;Made me think of another paradigm: host\/parasite.<br \/>I made a typo and wrote paradise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I friended Monterey cypress. They lean and question,&nbsp;<br \/>buffeted by circumstance. I saw the bright grass after a morning rain,&nbsp;<br \/>speckled as skin of a fabulous lizard.&nbsp; Small guests, nothing but.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For three weeks, I was a guest: to different showersAnd toilet flushes in the West, to coffee houses, to apps,to rosemary as box shrub.\u00a0\u00a0A guest to my suitcase.\u00a0\u00a0To hot tubs and skin in the garden of my tiny cottage.\u00a0Guest to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3016\">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":[138,15,1264],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","tag-travel","tag-travel-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-ME","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}