{"id":1950,"date":"2025-12-17T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:43:03","slug":"winter-windowsill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Winter Windowsill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Rebecca Evans<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The geranium seed I gathered<br>from the autumn garden and <br>planted in a peat pot to grow<br>on my kitchen sink windowsill<br>has sent up its first pair of true leaves.<br><br>I meditate on Lord Tennyson\u2019s poem,<br>Flower in the Crannied Wall, and<br>wait, while I wash each evening\u2019s <br>dishes, to watch the universe <br>expand before my lowered eyes.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wait\/&#8230;to watch the universe\/ expand before my lowered eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dec-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}