{"id":4840,"date":"2016-10-03T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2016-10-03T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:10:23","slug":"eyes-to-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/hope\/eyes-to-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes to the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PorchView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PorchView.jpg\" alt=\"porchview\" width=\"250\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PorchView.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PorchView-300x366.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PorchView-450x549.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PorchView-250x305.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>When I was a kid, my father liked to take my siblings and me up to the roof to look at the stars. I well remember how scary it was to climb the ladder and the awful, pivotal moment at the top when I had to step around the ladder onto the roof itself. For an instant, my weight would hover above a drop of dark air, the crickets would crescendo, and fear would suck the breath out of me.<\/p>\n<p>It was worth it, though, once I reached the flat, wooden platform near the chimney, and I\u2019d stretch out on my back in a blanket, with my siblings pressed shivering beside me. We\u2019d try to see where Dad was pointing as he guided us around the constellations. We\u2019d watch for the blinking progress of a satellite. We\u2019d open our eyes wide, until stars appeared between stars, until darkness was nothing to fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, my father liked to take my siblings and me up to the roof to look at the stars. I well remember how scary it was to climb the ladder and the awful, pivotal moment at the top when I had to step around the ladder onto the roof itself. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-childhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}