{"id":198,"date":"2008-07-09T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-07-09T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T21:34:21","slug":"green-its-not-easy-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/green-its-not-easy-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Green (it&#8217;s not easy being)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green. Green is lush, rich, rolling meadow morning softness. Green is enviro -friendly, future-oriented, the color of money, the color of life, of springtime, gems &#8211; emerald , malachite, jade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65291836@N00\/2636116434\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3049\/2636116434_51e1bcdce2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#339966;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65291836@N00\/2636116434\"><em>Photo &#8220;Please don&#8217;t move&#8221; by Zespira L. on Flickr<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But green is deep, sneaky, possessive, emerald powerful jealousy.<\/p>\n<p>Green is the dark hate I feel for girls who get to wear short skirts without puffy ankles or knees.<br \/>\nGreen is someone else getting the call, the moment, the power.<br \/>\nGreen is the sickening despair of not being noticed, not being enough, not mattering.<br \/>\nGreen is stronger, less forgiving then blue.<\/p>\n<p>It cannot see its dewy deep beauty, which is too bad. Strong as it is, it could be so much stronger, if it could see.<br \/>\nGreen. Green has so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green. Green is lush, rich, rolling meadow morning softness. Green is enviro -friendly, future-oriented, the color of money, the color of life, of springtime, gems &#8211; emerald , malachite, jade. Photo &#8220;Please don&#8217;t move&#8221; by Zespira L. on Flickr But green is deep, sneaky, possessive, emerald powerful jealousy. Green is the dark hate I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[653,664,638,676,680,686,689,690,704,337,713,1246,551,751,43,46],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-birth","tag-color","tag-colors","tag-emerald","tag-envy","tag-gems","tag-green","tag-greenzo","tag-jealousy","tag-life","tag-lush","tag-poetry","tag-spring","tag-symbol","tag-washington","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}