{"id":1037,"date":"2021-01-12T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2021-01-26T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:12:12","slug":"reverberations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2021\/01\/12\/reverberations\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverberations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12-28-2020-2.jpeg-2-1024x209.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12-28-2020-2.jpeg-2-1024x209.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12-28-2020-2.jpeg-2-300x61.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12-28-2020-2.jpeg-2-768x157.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12-28-2020-2.jpeg-2-1536x313.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12-28-2020-2.jpeg-2-2048x417.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12-28-2020-2.jpeg-2-604x123.jpeg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Reverberations.m4a?_t=1611602284\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><br><br>Reverberations<br>\u00a0<br>The casual words flung from our tongues<br>take wing and never rest.<br>Those words reverberate with skill<br>as a most unwelcomed guest.<br>\u00a0<br>We, heedless, toss forth hateful words<br>unaware of their piercing curse<br>and if we knew, the question is<br>would we still choose to disperse?<br>\u00a0<br>It does not matter who you are<br>you\u2019ll spit out hurt filled words<br>the trick might be to scatter them<br>like huge herds of startled birds!<br>\u00a0<br>So I must vow to bite my tongue<br>and swallow where my ego talks<br>My sponsor told me years ago<br>it\u2019s hard enough to talk the talk<br>and harder, still, to walk that talk.<br><br><br><br><br><br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 2021<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}