{"id":493,"date":"2009-08-31T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2009-08-31T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:56:55","slug":"framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Framed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/framed.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" alt=\"[IMAGE] framed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/AbyssReflectclip.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/AttheAbysspg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Reflecting.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>My little Smudge has no idea just how perfect his reflection looked in the framed pastel hanging across from my desk. I couldn&#8217;t have positioned him like this had I tried.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reflecting, too, on the toll the massive fires are taking in my former home turf of Los Angeles. I&#8217;ve been following the reports on the web, and trying to transmit humid, cooler thoughts to the pyro gods above. During the 24 years I lived in southern California I experienced a lot of wildfires, a handful of which came frighteningly close to the physical spaces that contained fragile, temporal proof of my existence. Once you&#8217;ve been through it, a visceral reaction is unavoidable. Bravi to the brave: the tireless firefighters, working so hard in these hellish conditions, risking, and sadly sometimes giving, their lives in an effort to protect everyone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Reflecting. My little Smudge has no idea just how perfect his reflection looked in the framed pastel hanging across from my desk. I couldn&#8217;t have positioned him like this had I tried. I&#8217;m reflecting, too, on the toll the massive fires are taking in my former home turf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}