{"id":3081,"date":"2023-05-28T21:42:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T21:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2023-05-28T21:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T21:45:06","slug":"ezekiel-does-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3081","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Does Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Summer-Gatherings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Summer-Gatherings-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3082\" width=\"512\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Summer-Gatherings-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Summer-Gatherings-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Summer-Gatherings-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Summer-Gatherings.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone snapped the light switch, and suddenly it\u2019s summer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Suddenly people are having fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question mark of an existential figure that walked the streets alone, toting laptop and phone &#8212; he\u2019s been replaced by friends and families walking in public and laughing with glee, spilling onto streets eating and drinking.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re living plush as the young grass, right now.&nbsp;&nbsp;Something we always knew but forgot, and had to go back to origins to retrieve.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe this bright green exuberance will become parched, and our wandering techie will go back to being malcontent \u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI hate the sun!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for a moment on Memorial Day weekend, Ezekiel has his day, in all his doubleness: All flesh is grass, all its goodness like flowers of the field.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dead soldiers had lives as frail as grass.\u00a0 At the same time, all that grass \u2013 all that goodness &#8211; what splendor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone snapped the light switch, and suddenly it\u2019s summer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Suddenly people are having fun.&nbsp;&nbsp; The question mark of an existential figure that walked the streets alone, toting laptop and phone &#8212; he\u2019s been replaced by friends and families walking in public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3081\">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":[1096,1287,1286,1283,138,1284,1285,453],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carpe-diem","tag-frail-as-grass","tag-living-is-easy","tag-memorial-day","tag-poetry","tag-prophets","tag-summer-living","tag-summertime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-NH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","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=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}