{"id":849,"date":"2020-09-24T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=849"},"modified":"2020-11-13T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T16:56:12","slug":"protectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/09\/24\/protectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Protectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-24-2020-Protectors-1.jpg-3-1024x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-24-2020-Protectors-1.jpg-3-1024x394.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-24-2020-Protectors-1.jpg-3-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-24-2020-Protectors-1.jpg-3-768x296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-24-2020-Protectors-1.jpg-3-1536x592.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-24-2020-Protectors-1.jpg-3-604x233.jpg 604w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-24-2020-Protectors-1.jpg-3.jpg 2020w\" 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\/Protectors.m4a?_t=1600974954\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Protectors<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>The drone visually<br>lifts us above the thick<br>overstory of a Northern woods.<br>From above, the trees<br>look like trembling masses<br>of joyful abundance<br>~ gloriously exuberant.<br>\u00a0<br>Impenetrable tree<br>hordes weave their<br>uppermost branches<br>like sacrosanct<br>netting, braiding<br>around new borne stars.<br>Look up through the trees.<br>\u00a0<br>Can you even<br>imagine?<br>\u00a0<br>There was a time<br>(perhaps in college)<br>when I had more time<br>(is that possible?)<br>and I walked at peace<br>among The Trees.<br>Silence presents as Blue.<br>\u00a0<br>Winds swirl and stir the<br>ceilinged trees ~ those<br>eating the sun. Those, so<br>beautifully equipped to<br>endure the assault since they<br>were so beautifully nourished:<br>they defend the heartwood.<br>\u00a0<br>They conspire to<br>protect me, as well.<br>\u00a0<br>So I, underneath,<br>barely notice the storm,<br>sheltered as I am by a<br>vast trellis of limbs, by a<br>sea of leaves, by those<br>stout columnar trunks.<br>\u00a0<br>I know that wind &#8211;<br>that shivered wind &#8211;<br>but I am well below.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 9\/23\/2020<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851,"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-849","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\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}