{"id":127,"date":"2017-03-22T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T10:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/?p=127"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T10:16:57","slug":"zero-fahrenheit-and-sunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/zero-fahrenheit-and-sunny\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Fahrenheit and sunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long, dark and cold winter\u2019s night<br \/>\nthe black tin roof of my neighbor\u2019s house<br \/>\nhas a couple of inches of fresh powder snow,<br \/>\na surreally even blanket of virgin softness<br \/>\nwhere the sun\u2019s brightness mingles with blue shadows.<\/p>\n<p>So unreal the surface looks; hypnotizing, captivating,<br \/>\ntenderly forcing me into a meditative state.<br \/>\nNo hurries, no worries, no sorries are felt<br \/>\nas I stare at this midwinter\u2019s timeless, priceless wonder<br \/>\nas if it were sending a greeting, a message of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>Staying in the golden moment feels so fine, so inviting,<br \/>\nall beginnings, ends and destinies, it seems, are included.<br \/>\nOn this blanket more than a million shiny diamonds are sewn:<br \/>\nthe sunshine hits some crystals, more blessed than the others,<br \/>\ncaressing them with extraterrestial energy at zero Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Composed in February 2012\u00a0in Helsinki, Finland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Recited publicly on March 15, <\/em>2017<em> at Caf\u00e9 ZamZam in Eken\u00e4s, Finland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Poetry-reading.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Photo: Kevin Stewart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long, dark and cold winter\u2019s night the black tin roof of my neighbor\u2019s house has a couple of inches of fresh powder snow, a surreally even blanket of virgin softness where the sun\u2019s brightness mingles with blue shadows. So unreal the surface looks; hypnotizing, captivating, tenderly forcing me into a meditative state. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yleinen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}