{"id":1185,"date":"2020-08-04T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lydiaink.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:51:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:51:01","slug":"hurons-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/hurons-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Huron&#8217;s Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spirits walk along Huron&#8217;s shores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calm Caribbean winds creep in from spent hurricanes and mate with glacier icy stillness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t stop here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ghosts of shipwreck still trod upon the wet sand and are not bent by cathedral ceilings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A full moon&#8217;s rays slice through the chaotic storms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not stop here.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The serious mind believes a cause completed will release the memory of souls;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The memory of freshwater drowning and freshwater freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Away in a town&#8217;s well-lighted streets, the tavern rings with music and speech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tiny cottage on the outskirts of a Great Lakes&#8217; village is cozy with a fire in the hearth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All know the tapping at the windows and the white bird&#8217;s wings at night.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The old priests still face the storm and gale to soften the parishioner&#8217;s flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Old traditions hold, but on Huron&#8217;s shore there is a breathed thankfulness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To die in one&#8217;s bed and not within Huron&#8217;s hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drowning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,22],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-fiction","tag-greatlakes","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}