{"id":33030,"date":"2017-01-11T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-days-after-the-winter-solstice\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:01:41","slug":"writers-weir-days-after-the-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-days-after-the-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Days after the Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<p>BY RICHARD STOKES<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p><em\/><\/p>\n<p>Even if you listen carefully<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>you will not hear the shift of breathing<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>in buds tightly clenched against winter.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Deep in alder and cottonwood thickets<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>a buzz has started as more photons of light<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>cascade over the fist-tight buds<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>than yesterday and the day before,<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>beginning tingles of expectation and of hope,<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>a quickening to build day by day<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>until the green and aromatic explosion of Spring.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<p><em>\u2022 Richard Stokes, a Juneau resident since 1971, writes about nature, which he loves, and aging, which he is doing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after the Winter Solstice BY RICHARD STOKES Even if you listen carefully you will not hear the shift of breathing in buds tightly clenched against winter. Deep in alder and cottonwood thickets a buzz has started as more photons of light cascade over the fist-tight buds than yesterday and the day before, beginning tingles [&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-33030","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\/33030","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=33030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33030"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}