{"id":533,"date":"2020-07-21T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=533"},"modified":"2020-07-21T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:24:00","slug":"dagian-old-english-first-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/21\/dagian-old-english-first-light\/","title":{"rendered":"dagian, Old English: first light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-dawn-2-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-dawn-2-rotated.jpg 480w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-dawn-2-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>It Is the Hour<\/em><\/strong> by Barbara Helvey Hughes<br>\u00a0<br>Steel grey clouds press low and heavy on the distant ridge<br>seeming to burden them, trapping what small light awakens<br>at this 6 a.m. hour.\u00a0 I love this time of day.\u00a0 Love awakening<br>with fog or mist, clouds or rain, sun or wind.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter:<br>It is the hour.<br>\u00a0<br>I never believed I would be old enough to exist at so young an hour.<br>Couldn\u2019t wait to awaken at 3 a.m. or midnight or 5 a.m..\u00a0 Rise, move,<br>do stuff: meditate, read, write, eat almonds.\u00a0 Freedom.\u00a0 Independence.<br>Think of you ~ what you are doing, where, why, what? What? What?<br>It is the hour.<br>\u00a0<br>So, as those felted clouds blanket the Roan and smother light, I sit<br>seduced by memories, sipping piping coffee, appreciating the biting wind,<br>much colder, now, infused with remnants of some other Southern<br>Storms, which remind me of you and of how I miss you. \u00a0You.<br>\u00a0<br>It is the hour.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the cool of dawn, in the first glow looking East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541,"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-533","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\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}