{"id":508,"date":"2009-01-28T21:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/winter-comes-to-washington\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T01:57:59","slug":"winter-comes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/winter-comes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter comes to washington."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car breaking down, the writing I have (and want) to do, feeling less blah and more superstar at work, not reacting to perceived injustices with emotion and drama? I&#8217;m working on these.<\/p>\n<p>But shovelling? That I can do. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13885518@N08\/3188701270\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3394\/3188701270_f52d6b6c0e.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Mr. Moon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncsabito\/\" target=\"_blank\">DonCsabito on flickr<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It takes me home, to my youth, to my first quasi-grown-up experience: college with my green snap-together plastic shovel in my Nissan Maxima station wagon trunk, digging MYSELF out, getting my own snow tires (or not), falling for the &#8220;winterizing package&#8221; at Jiffy Lube.<\/p>\n<p>But shovelling? Shovelling is home. When it&#8217;s powdery bluewhite crystal, and swishes off the plastic and crinkles under your toes? A chill in your nose, but the light from the house warming your path, showing you are not far from your long winter&#8217;s nap.<\/p>\n<p>Winter walking? the whoosh whoosh crunch of the still blue night and my boots and mittens  swishing and stretching. That is home and it is a good one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car breaking down, the writing I have (and want) to do, feeling less blah and more superstar at work, not reacting to perceived injustices with emotion and drama? I&#8217;m working on these. But shovelling? That I can do. [Mr. Moon, DonCsabito on flickr] It takes me home, to my youth, to my first quasi-grown-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,766,622],"tags":[17,50,397,1246,1005,43,1006],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-wash","category-words","tag-home","tag-love","tag-night","tag-poetry","tag-snow","tag-washington","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}