{"id":21087,"date":"2017-02-16T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T01:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-memory\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T01:56:40","slug":"writers-weir-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers\u2019 Weir: Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memory<\/p>\n<p>By W.S. Merk<\/p>\n<p>memory<\/p>\n<p>is a windblown ridge<\/p>\n<p>shifting in light and color<\/p>\n<p>chimney smoke whispers<\/p>\n<p>our shared sky<\/p>\n<p>smudging your kiss<\/p>\n<p>into blurred rouge questions<\/p>\n<p>this morning<\/p>\n<p>this early afternoon<\/p>\n<p>what better time<\/p>\n<p>to carelessly drop open<\/p>\n<p>the sheaf of our history<\/p>\n<p>and read aloud<\/p>\n<p>the page that lands<\/p>\n<p>open in sunlight<\/p>\n<p><em>W.S. Merk has been living and writing in Juneau, Alaska since 1991.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Capital City Weekly accepts poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction submissions for Writers&rsquo; Weir on a rolling basis and will publish them as space and competition allow. Send submissions to editor@capweek.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory By W.S. Merk memory is a windblown ridge shifting in light and color chimney smoke whispers our shared sky smudging your kiss into blurred rouge questions this morning this early afternoon what better time to carelessly drop open the sheaf of our history and read aloud the page that lands open in sunlight W.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":21088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21087"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}