{"id":3457,"date":"2025-01-06T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:15:38","slug":"play-it-again-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3457","title":{"rendered":"Play It Again, Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quonnie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quonnie-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3458\" style=\"width:562px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quonnie-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quonnie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quonnie-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quonnie-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quonnie.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once thought it a white man\u2019s thing \u2013<br \/>righteous poems lamenting time \u2013<br \/>when fingertips that steady the fruit knife<br \/>scrape garlic, soothe kids know truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now end of day, end of year\u00a0<br \/>silver threads of dusk\u00a0<br \/>hover on short hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family that made the water<br \/>less leaden are gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mirrors gang up, opalescent\u00a0<br \/>as oysters, staring \u2013 the tide,\u00a0<br \/>soft as zinc, washes and rises.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And resolutions, renewal\u00a0<br \/>of renewal \u2013 exhausting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Body will do what it wants.\u00a0<br \/>Already destined. Mad dance.\u00a0<br \/>Diamond.\u00a0\u00a0Apple.\u00a0\u00a0Meaning.\u00a0<br \/>The one thing we can\u2019t see clearly\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and beg the angels for.<br \/>They, in their discipling act,\u00a0<br \/>laugh pity whisper,\u00a0<em>So be it, mortal,\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>long, long on.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once thought it a white man\u2019s thing \u2013righteous poems lamenting time \u2013when fingertips that steady the fruit knifescrape garlic, soothe kids know truth. Now end of day, end of year\u00a0silver threads of dusk\u00a0hover on short hours. Family that made the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3457\">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":[1540,1478,1413,1541,126,1239],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blues","tag-existential-questions","tag-legacy","tag-mortality","tag-new-years","tag-resolutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-TL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","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=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}