{"id":1468,"date":"2023-06-20T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2023-06-20T18:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T23:23:02","slug":"summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By CJ Muchhala<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Close to shore, water is glass.<br>Farther out it conjures the shiny scales of a snake\u2019s shed skin.<br>Sun, now low, marries lake to sky in rose fluorescence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A narrow opening to the west.<br>Trees black beneath this brightening tear.<br>Cloud the color of eggshell drowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long after earth succumbs to night, water holds light.<br>If I could reach deep enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could pull myself back into morning, waken<br>to strawberries in a rose-tinted bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Published in Wisconsin Poets Calendar, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sun&#8230;marries lake to sky in a rose fluorescence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by BING <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}