{"id":3226,"date":"2023-12-31T19:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2023-12-31T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:01:14","slug":"memo-for-the-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"Memo for the Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Souci-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Souci-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3227\" style=\"width:631px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Souci-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Souci-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Souci-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Souci-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Souci-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I said I believed in lightness,\u00a0<br \/>I wasn\u2019t kidding.\u00a0\u00a0Over and over, I return \u2013<br \/>not to escapism or fantasy or ostrich necks\u2013<br \/>but to dissolving solidity, breaking up the world\u2019s fixity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My holidays \u2013 as if a wild angel came reeling&nbsp;<br \/>from the wings and slammed into despair \u2013&nbsp;<br \/>as simple as reckless laughter, unplanned, unbidden<br \/>or a piece of hot bread with butter and a shard of salt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The way of the heart \u2013 to be renewed every day,&nbsp;<br \/>no matter how many times the heart breaks.&nbsp;<br \/>Knowing that everything can be transformed&nbsp;<br \/>into something else (see Ovid); that winged<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">leaps \u2013 words in whorls of motion, fugitive<br \/>emotion &#8212; lead to a poem, and person, that seeks freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I said I believed in lightness,\u00a0I wasn\u2019t kidding.\u00a0\u00a0Over and over, I return \u2013not to escapism or fantasy or ostrich necks\u2013but to dissolving solidity, breaking up the world\u2019s fixity.\u00a0\u00a0 My holidays \u2013 as if a wild angel came reeling&nbsp;from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3226\">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":[898,1365,1366,126,1368,180,138,1367],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-despair","tag-italo-calvino","tag-lightness","tag-new-years","tag-optimism","tag-ovid","tag-poetry","tag-weight"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Q2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}