{"id":284,"date":"2022-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"to-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/13\/to-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"to autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\nI warm my hands around autumn<br \/>\nlike it were a cup of tea, <br \/>\nclinging to the heat until<br \/>\nthe flavoured water is down <br \/>\nthe sink or down the throat,<br \/>\nand the minute hand does not run <br \/>\nany faster than it did when<br \/>\nthe water came to a boil.<\/p>\n<p>\nI fold late fall into<br \/>\nmy red checkered handkerchief<br \/>\nand store it like a pressed leaf<br \/>\nin the pocket of my khakis<br \/>\nweathered off-white with a frayed hem.<br \/>\nThe pocket has a hole I plug<br \/>\nwith the tip of a finger<br \/>\nas I take my secret home<br \/>\nto admire in stillness.<\/p>\n<p>\nAutumn is a translucent balm<br \/>\nthat heals the bruise and numbs the pain<br \/>\nso flowers may bloom in the wounded <br \/>\nspace between two heartbeats again.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I warm my hands around autumn  like it were a cup of tea,   clinging to the heat until  the flavoured water is down   the sink or down the throat,  and the minute hand does not run   any faster than it did when  the water came to a boil.      I fol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}