{"id":963,"date":"2011-10-14T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2011-10-14T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:27:09","slug":"a-summer-rainstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/a-summer-rainstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summer Rainstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Matthew Zapruder<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am happy to be<br \/>\nhere in this bright room<\/p>\n<p>drifting through music made by others<\/p>\n<p>looking down on the heads of the people passing<br \/>\nteaching each other that life is forgoing<\/p>\n<p>I think everyone I can see is partially sad<br \/>\nbecause we will never be fully forgiven<\/p>\n<p>this apartment building has seen so much moving through the city<\/p>\n<p>well ordered troops<br \/>\nmany proud careful mothers and fathers pushing carriages<\/p>\n<p>many people holding hands or talking on their cell phones and crying<br \/>\nhundreds of girls each wearing a plastic tiara<\/p>\n<p>carefully placed on her head by the mayor at the annual spring parade<\/p>\n<p>this building with the ordinary green facade<br \/>\nno one will see as they wait for the storm to pass<\/p>\n<p>their breath creating giant cloud forms<\/p>\n<p>from my window I can see their heads<\/p>\n<p>it makes me smile a little with love how much they look like moose in the zoo<br \/>\nhow they stand very patiently close to one another<\/p>\n<p>under the door of the sky<br \/>\ntheir memories gracefully blundering into the long cool forest<\/p>\n<p>full of shadows<\/p>\n<p>our life is the one we already have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on September 25<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matthew Zapruder Sometimes I am happy to be here in this bright room drifting through music made by others looking down on the heads of the people passing teaching each other that life is forgoing I think everyone I can see is partially sad because we will never be fully forgiven this apartment building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}