{"id":4967,"date":"2017-03-22T11:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2017-03-22T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:31:41","slug":"the-leafless-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/hope\/the-leafless-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leafless Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford, CT, March 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

In case you haven\u2019t noticed, we in New England spend half of each year without leaves. This allows for countless opportunities to appreciate the moody grace of our trees. Here\u2019s one, for instance, overlooking the churlish waves of Long Island Sound. Note, too, how nicely it compliments the leaden sky and dingy, dormant grass.<\/p>\n

Gloomy? Of course. But it\u2019s the kind of gloom that inspires and transports. I\u2019m reminded that Heathcliff\u2019s name was a combination of heath (the habitat), and cliff (a precipice), as if he were a dangerous element of the wild himself. Much as we might like to ignore nature sometimes, we can\u2019t separate ourselves from it. Instead, we learn to pine here, and to endure, and to laugh at small, warm things, like turning our backs to the wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t noticed, we in New England spend half of each year without leaves. This allows for countless opportunities to appreciate the moody grace of our trees. Here\u2019s one, for instance, overlooking the churlish waves of Long Island Sound. Note, too, how nicely it compliments the leaden sky and dingy, dormant grass. Gloomy? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","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=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}