{"id":3695,"date":"2026-06-01T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:44:16","slug":"anguish-is-like-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3695","title":{"rendered":"Anguish is like Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6118-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6118-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3696\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500043726934043;width:392px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6118-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6118-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6118-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6118-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6118-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My anguish can be washed in warm water, with a mild soap, when it\u2019s soaked then rolled in an old towel lay it out in the dappled sun, beside lilies of the valley where it can hear the tinkling of its bells and exchange its sour breath for their small beads of sweet aroma smelling of fields and fields of the smallest hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My anguish can be washed in warm water, with a mild soap, when it\u2019s soaked then rolled in an old towel lay it out in the dappled sun, beside lilies of the valley where it can hear the tinkling of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3695\">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":[1771,1580,898,1770,138,1768,1259,1769],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cleansing","tag-depression","tag-despair","tag-hope","tag-poetry","tag-prose-poem","tag-spring-flowers","tag-vowels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-XB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}