{"id":5127,"date":"2011-09-21T08:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2011-10-06T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:51:30","slug":"first-day-of-autumn-another-full-journal-in-the-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=5127","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Autumn: Another Full Journal in the Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a colorful, drying leaf that&#8217;s served its great purpose,\u00a0absorbing sunlight and creating nourishing energy, that now\u00a0falls gently down to earth,\u00a0so I shelve another journal fully absorbed with my musings, blatherings, rough drafts, ideas; a smattering collection\u00a0of\u00a0words, some dumb, some\u00a0brilliant, most, probably, somewhere in between.\u00a0 These pages absorbed rays of written energy and in turn, nourished me and whoever may read what\u00a0writing made it to this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna rake the journal up now onto the shelf and throw it on the pile of other ones and let it sit for awhile.\u00a0 Maybe all that verbiage will break down, ferment, and in a spell I&#8217;ll come back and\u00a0possibly, hopefully\u00a0find rich, literary compost for a story, a poem, an essay, a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a colorful, drying leaf that&#8217;s served its great purpose,\u00a0absorbing sunlight and creating nourishing energy, that now\u00a0falls gently down to earth,\u00a0so I shelve another journal fully absorbed with my musings, blatherings, rough drafts, ideas; a smattering collection\u00a0of\u00a0words, some dumb, some\u00a0brilliant, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=5127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[840,155,13],"tags":[247,798,60,157,799,25,1076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}