{"id":3646,"date":"2026-02-02T02:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2026-02-02T02:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:59:54","slug":"ultraviolet-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3646","title":{"rendered":"UltraViolet Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5471-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5471-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3647\" style=\"width:350px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5471-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5471-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5471-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5471-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5471-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I awaken to pee, pass the window<br \/>in its wide-eyed state: too bright.<br \/>Could be a spotlight that beams\u00a0<br \/>new films, except this skytracker\u00a0<br \/>doesn\u2019t rove. The light is steady, ultraviolet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dead tree, tumbling shrubs,\u00a0<br \/>picket fence \u2013 all caught in the tremble<br \/>of their last pose.\u00a0\u00a0Tears freeze in this light.<br \/><br \/>Heaps of snow on the chaise longues\u00a0<br \/>are body shaped. Aha! There lie the outsiders<br \/>who live outside. Others, unwanteds, the ones\u00a0<br \/>they now see, are said to be among us.\u00a0<br \/>If only we knew who the &#8220;we&#8221; is.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only shadows didn\u2019t seem doomed.\u00a0<br \/>The drip-drip of the faucet, shoe-sized.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>They can\u2019t even let the full moon off the hook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awaken to pee, pass the windowin its wide-eyed state: too bright.Could be a spotlight that beams\u00a0new films, except this skytracker\u00a0doesn\u2019t rove. The light is steady, ultraviolet.\u00a0 The dead tree, tumbling shrubs,\u00a0picket fence \u2013 all caught in the trembleof their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3646\">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":[1670,1389,138,1515],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-full-moon","tag-ice","tag-poetry","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-WO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","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=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}