{"id":3635,"date":"2026-01-12T02:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:36:57","slug":"bowl-of-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"Bowl of Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0985-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0985-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3636\" style=\"width:587px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0985-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0985-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0985-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0985-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0985-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The house was warm, but down the road,<br \/>everything steel-gray &#8211; the vast curve\u00a0<br \/>of the bay, clouds thin and skinned,\u00a0<br \/>each streak a pale sister of the other.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shades have no names, so delicate,\u00a0<br \/>merged, chilled.\u00a0\u00a0Darkly brooding,\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>wading into my poor mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d understand if there were\u00a0<br \/>only darkness.\u00a0\u00a0But that gray shines\u00a0<br \/>bright, perfect for cloud bathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI, they say, will always be smarter<br \/>than humans; but humans get to feast,<br \/>darkly, on this bowl of mysteries.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house was warm, but down the road,everything steel-gray &#8211; the vast curve\u00a0of the bay, clouds thin and skinned,\u00a0each streak a pale sister of the other.\u00a0\u00a0 The shades have no names, so delicate,\u00a0merged, chilled.\u00a0\u00a0Darkly brooding,\u00a0\u00a0wading into my poor mind. I\u2019d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3635\">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":[1713,1712,1177,1710,1711,1709,138,990,810,1708],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bleached-winter","tag-color-theor","tag-color-theory","tag-edgewood","tag-monotone","tag-narragansett-bay","tag-poetry","tag-rhode-island","tag-winter","tag-winter-beach"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-WD","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","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=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}