{"id":30,"date":"2009-04-11T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=30"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:00:04","slug":"naming-a-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Naming a Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daughter of storms,<br \/>\ncaught between latitudes,<br \/>\nthe weather of your adolescence<br \/>\ngales from the calm,<br \/>\nclear center of childhood,<br \/>\nrains down on our middle age,<br \/>\nelectrifying the air.<\/p>\n<p>For years, hurricanes were named<br \/>\nsolely after women.\u00a0 Names<br \/>\nthat meant wreckage,<br \/>\ndowned power lines, roads<br \/>\nstrewn with trees.<br \/>\nStorms howled through the alphabet:<br \/>\nAlice, Betty, Camille, Donna,<br \/>\nEllen, Francis, Gladys,<\/p>\n<p>Lauren.\u00a0 Nothing prepares us<br \/>\nfor these high winds.<br \/>\nWe face your sightless strength<br \/>\nwithout power of our own.<br \/>\nWe look backwards, searching<br \/>\nfor mistakes.<br \/>\nWe look forward.\u00a0 Nothing<br \/>\nbut nature\u2019s long perspective,<br \/>\ncareless, fearless,<br \/>\nbowing to no god.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney Daughter of storms, caught between latitudes, the weather of your adolescence gales from the calm, clear center of childhood, rains down on our middle age, electrifying the air. For years, hurricanes were named solely after women.\u00a0 Names that meant wreckage, downed power lines, roads strewn with trees. Storms howled through the alphabet: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naming_a_hurricane","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}