{"id":376,"date":"2010-03-26T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T01:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-03-26T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T01:43:25","slug":"picture-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Picture This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am standing at the kitchen window,<br \/>\ncamera in hand, watching for Bluebirds<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4441022836\/\" title=\"IMG_3207 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4029\/4441022836_0287c12dbd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>a Cardinal perhaps, or a Cedar Waxwing.<\/p>\n<p>I am standing like my mother has stood<br \/>\nthese 70 years, her hands in dish water,<br \/>\nsoapy with the long day&#8217;s end<br \/>\nof sighing over children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4396986889\/\" title=\"IMG_2371 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4032\/4396986889_c7b501488e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She is standing in my mind<br \/>\nlike her mother who would not<br \/>\nlet the rinse water drain<br \/>\nbecause she never forgot<br \/>\nthe labor of buckets hauled<br \/>\nin for the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433474056\/\" title=\"IMG_2910 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4024\/4433474056_a0b9f5e853.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2910\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maytag does the work for me.<br \/>\nI stand here only to remember<br \/>\nthe habits of long days&#8217; end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4466213606\/\" title=\"IMG_3670 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2789\/4466213606_e7a288bf34.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3670\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stand here to learn something<br \/>\nI believe I should already know.<\/p>\n<p>**Written today as a free write in response to the prompt &#8220;picture this,&#8221; which I used in giving a journaling workshop for the South Mississippi Writing Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am standing at the kitchen window, camera in hand,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}