{"id":2889,"date":"2021-02-17T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2021-08-02T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:06:10","slug":"a-midwest-february-morn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"A Midwest February Morn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>A Midwest February Morn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/three-shastas-2-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/three-shastas-2-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/three-shastas-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/three-shastas-2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/three-shastas-2-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Long winters are when I think of her most. <br>The beauty I desire and left far behind without much thought. <br><br>I long for her peaks and valleys, <br>the curvatures of her voluminous physical features. <br><br>Her lakes like watery eyes staring at me from afar. <br>Her long timbers reaching for the blue sky. <br><br>Her red iron skin and manzanita blooms in her hair call to me.<br>I miss the one that I only think about when I hunger for her. <br><br>My heart is tugged to head to the familiar and I desire for her warmth on my skin, compared only to a fire on a cold winters night. <br><br>She sings a song in my heart and the song is all the louder in the Midwest February Morn. <br><br>My home, My Northern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Midwest February Morn Long winters are when I think of her most. The beauty I desire and left far behind without much thought. I long for her peaks and valleys, the curvatures of her voluminous physical features. Her lakes like watery eyes staring at me from afar. Her long timbers reaching for the blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}