{"id":22,"date":"2009-04-11T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-04-11T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:57:02","slug":"first-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"First Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a dress to be worn<br \/>\nby a free woman<br \/>\nin the black before dawn, liquid cool<br \/>\nand open down the back,<br \/>\nscented with the smell of heat<br \/>\nrising from stones.<\/p>\n<p>It is silk in shifting patterns,<br \/>\nfloor-length, ungathered, unadorned,<br \/>\na dress that catches crystal<br \/>\nin its wake and shatters it,<br \/>\nand the shattering is sudden<br \/>\nand loud.<\/p>\n<p>It is a chilled glass of a gown<br \/>\ncut for quenching the narrow moons<br \/>\nof prediction and reason,<br \/>\nstitched strong for dancing<br \/>\nout a strange, hot season,<br \/>\nlooked forward to, whispered after.<\/p>\n<p><em> Appeared in The American Scholar;<br \/>\nSummer 1998<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney It is a dress to be worn by a free woman in the black before dawn, liquid cool and open down the back, scented with the smell of heat rising from stones. It is silk in shifting patterns, floor-length, ungathered, unadorned, a dress that catches crystal in its wake and shatters it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-rain","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}