{"id":581,"date":"2005-05-11T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=581"},"modified":"2005-05-11T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T19:16:39","slug":"unearthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/05\/11\/unearthly\/","title":{"rendered":"Unearthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sombrero.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/sombrero.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarol.com\/carrizo.html\">Carrizo Plain <\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\"> sky <\/a>.  Thanks to shinydome and  rakkity.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Silence<\/p>\n<p>There is the sudden silence of the crowd<br \/>\nabove a player not moving on the field,<br \/>\nand the silence of the orchid.<\/p>\n<p>The silence of the falling vase<br \/>\nbefore it strikes the floor,<br \/>\nthe silence of the belt when it is not striking the child.<\/p>\n<p>The stillness of the cup and the water in it,<br \/>\nthe silence of the window above us,<br \/>\nand the silence when you rise and turn away.<\/p>\n<p>And there is the silence of this morning<br \/>\nwhich I have broken with my pen,<br \/>\na silence that had piled up all night<\/p>\n<p>like snow falling in the darkness of the house &#8211;<br \/>\nthe silence before I wrote a word<br \/>\nand the poorer silence now. <\/p>\n<p>Billy Collins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carrizo Plain in the sky . Thanks to shinydome and rakkity. Silence There is the sudden silence of the crowd above a player not moving on the field, and the silence of the orchid. The silence of the falling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/05\/11\/unearthly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}