{"id":31145,"date":"2015-11-25T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-praise-for-an-ordinary-day\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:00:33","slug":"writers-weir-praise-for-an-ordinary-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-praise-for-an-ordinary-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Weir: Praise for an Ordinary Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December snow settles on spruce<\/p>\n<p>and hemlock, swollen flakes<br \/>forming a heavy mantle. Pliant limbs<br \/>bend, silently accepting layer upon layer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A wash of rain dissolves<br \/>winter\u2019s finery, elegance?<br \/>now plain. I mourn fleeting splendor<br \/>until my searching heart once again sees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a vibrant, green sisterhood,<br \/>her profusion of arms thrust<br \/>into the pallid sky, giving praise<br \/>for this ordinary day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 Diane DeSloover is a transplant from California to Juneau, where she sometimes misses dry, unchanging weather. But she will trade a desert for a rainforest any day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to submit your work to Writers\u2019 Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We accept submissions for Writers\u2019 Weir on a rolling basis and will publish them as space and competition allow. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please send your writing as an attached Word document (.doc or .docx) and\/or pasted into the body of your email. Please also include a short one or two line bio. Send submissions to maryc.martin@capweek.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December snow settles on spruce and hemlock, swollen flakesforming a heavy mantle. Pliant limbsbend, silently accepting layer upon layer. &nbsp; A wash of rain dissolveswinter\u2019s finery, elegance?now plain. I mourn fleeting splendoruntil my searching heart once again sees &nbsp; a vibrant, green sisterhood,her profusion of arms thrustinto the pallid sky, giving praisefor this ordinary day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"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-31145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31145","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=31145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31145"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}