{"id":3205,"date":"2023-12-04T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:51:22","slug":"a-spectacle-and-nothing-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3205","title":{"rendered":"A Spectacle and Nothing Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Street-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Street-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3206\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;width:375px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Street-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Street-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Street-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Street-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Street-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rain in Paris, great whorls of it spinning, falling <br \/>as knotted string, strung pearls, bird\u2019s nests,<br \/>gray hair, wire barbed or not, cat gut, old paint brushes,<br \/>tumbleweeds.\u00a0\u00a0Clean your hairbrush, bad curtains<br \/>in strips, cloud shreds, albumen, cauldrons\u00a0<br \/>of bouillon, cassette ribbons, phlegm and tears<br \/>like liquid crystals. We came to unwind, stifle the contraction<br \/>of a muscle, ease psychic anxiety, thicken<br \/>the moment, elevate life from sorrows revealed &#8212;\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>drizzle honey, find tea to paint with,\u00a0<br \/>wake with, dazzle our eyes, spy, spin words,<br \/>sun on a surfing bird, its bright wing, soon\u00a0<br \/>pink lakes that pool in the clouds,<br \/>see or imagine them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain in Paris, great whorls of it spinning, falling as knotted string, strung pearls, bird\u2019s nests,gray hair, wire barbed or not, cat gut, old paint brushes,tumbleweeds.\u00a0\u00a0Clean your hairbrush, bad curtainsin strips, cloud shreds, albumen, cauldrons\u00a0of bouillon, cassette ribbons, phlegm and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3205\">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":[1354,1353,1355,1241,131,138,1356],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gertrude-stein","tag-la-grisaile","tag-la-pluie","tag-metaphor","tag-paris","tag-poetry","tag-tender-buttons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-PH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","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=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}