{"id":3550,"date":"2025-07-21T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:58:22","slug":"how-to-see-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"How to See the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3756-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3756-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3756-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3756-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3756-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3756-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3756-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A small curve of a port \u2013&nbsp;<br \/>boats sit in great fields of mud, the water<br \/>rolled up like a carpet to join the sea,&nbsp;<br \/>to bunch into glossy, spit-tipped waves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did it mean \u2013&nbsp;<br \/>if we longed for the sea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The absent ubiquitous sea,<br \/>everywhere and nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking on a road called Pas de l\u2019Assassin,<br \/>I might think the sea is the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the brutal emptiness,&nbsp;<br \/>the stubbled fields could be rolled up<br \/>and sold to market \u2013<br \/>I might be richer, but the land poorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strange crucified lord<br \/>of the corn fields might answer someone\u2019s&nbsp;<br \/>need, but not mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I settled down by a tank of green waters,<br \/>drowned my sorrows by downing<br \/>a dozen oysters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small curve of a port \u2013&nbsp;boats sit in great fields of mud, the waterrolled up like a carpet to join the sea,&nbsp;to bunch into glossy, spit-tipped waves.&nbsp; What did it mean \u2013&nbsp;if we longed for the sea? The absent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3550\">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":[1289,789,1651,1646,1649,1650],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-absence","tag-holiday","tag-la-mer","tag-la-rochelle","tag-nieul-sur-mer","tag-vacances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Vg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","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=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}