{"id":360,"date":"2011-08-17T02:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T02:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:22:03","slug":"el-capitan-at-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/el-capitan-at-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"El Capitan at Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAlready the window is moving too fast.  In the steel rectangle a clearing for light to break-through arrives.  At first there are only trees, weakly green with the sudden spring, green butterflies freshly decanted from their winter chrysalis.  As a rented bike <em>brrs<\/em> by, confirmation that winter has let down her cowl, the square before me lights up&#8211;a whole skyful of lemon meringue!  And this sky is edged, defined by a black blade-drawn stroke of oil paint skidded from a master impressionist&#8217;s hand.  The stark corner of El Capitan looms larger than the sky itself from here in my springy car, the drying duct tape over an escaping seat-coil flapping anciently.  But here, risen in my eyes, a vast cliff-face made of rock and light greets me with eternity as I drive by yawning&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already the window is moving too fast. In the steel rectangle a clearing for light to break-through arrives. At first there are only trees, weakly green with the sudden spring, green butterflies freshly decanted from their winter chrysalis. As a rented bike brrs by, confirmation that winter has let down her cowl, the square before <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/el-capitan-at-sunset\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poems","category-sipping-beer","category-5-id","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8461,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/8461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}