{"id":583,"date":"2020-07-22T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=583"},"modified":"2020-07-22T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:09:20","slug":"i-almost-became-a-geologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/22\/i-almost-became-a-geologist\/","title":{"rendered":"I almost became a geologist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-22-2020-a-rock-1024x992.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585\" width=\"281\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-22-2020-a-rock-1024x992.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-22-2020-a-rock-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-22-2020-a-rock-279x270.jpg 279w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-22-2020-a-rock.jpg 1174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>The Sanctity of Rocks <\/em><\/strong>by Barbara Helvey Hughes<br>\u00a0<br>I collect rocks.<br>Is there something<br>sacred in that?<br>Yes. I think so.<br>\u00a0<br>As I drive to<br>the gym in Boone<br>my Spirit finds<br>the wind under<br>Wolfstone\u2019s wings and<br>I soar above<br>these Blue Ridges<br>listening to<br>their \u201c\u00a310 Float\u201d.<br>\u00a0<br>Below (or out<br>my car window) ~<br>rocks. Rocks jutting<br>out of other<br>rocks escaping<br>Earth\u2019s confinement.<br>\u00a0<br>Rocks squeeze their<br>way out from cracks<br>and crevices.<br>Rocks spit out, over<br>Time, like vexing<br>burrs stuck in our<br>Mother\u2019s throat ~ gone,<br>once and for all.<br>\u00a0<br>Trapped and released,<br>half swallowed and<br>appearing as<br>impossible<br>angles: heaved, thrust<br>upward from the<br>bowels of her core.<br>Molten, hardened.<br>\u00a0<br>No wonder this<br>place has put its<br>mark upon my<br>Soul\u2019s sanctity.<br>Heaven?<br>\u00a0<br>8-20-2017\/4-13-2018\/7-22-2020<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or a physicist&#8230;.anthropologist, biologist, professor, lawyer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584,"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-583","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\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}