{"id":4,"date":"2009-04-11T20:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-04-11T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:33:12","slug":"after-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"After Ten Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tonight on the mountain<br \/>\nI am startled by the sheer<br \/>\ngeometry of love.<br \/>\nEvery angle assumes a desired shape.<br \/>\nThe round-faced child<br \/>\nbreathes softly from a goose down bag.<br \/>\nMoon-white fields of ashen flowers<br \/>\njag into planes of snow.<br \/>\nTwo dogs sit<br \/>\nsquarely facing the dark.<\/p>\n<p>And as the mountain cuts into<br \/>\nthe circumference of moon,<br \/>\nthere is your hand,<br \/>\ncracked and weathered from our climb,<br \/>\nconnecting the points,<br \/>\nslanting toward water.<\/p>\n<p><em> Appeared in The Climbing Art;<br \/>\nVol. 29, 1996<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney Tonight on the mountain I am startled by the sheer geometry of love. Every angle assumes a desired shape. The round-faced child breathes softly from a goose down bag. Moon-white fields of ashen flowers jag into planes of snow. Two dogs sit squarely facing the dark. And as the mountain cuts into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[31,32,30],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after_ten_years","category-poetry","tag-after-ten-years","tag-barbara-sweeney","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"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=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}