{"id":804,"date":"2013-12-09T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:24:33","slug":"first-fog-by-beth-cato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"First Fog, by Beth Cato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Fog_at_Druids_Head_Farm_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1622664.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-805\" alt=\"Derek Harper [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Fog_at_Druids_Head_Farm_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1622664-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Fog_at_Druids_Head_Farm_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1622664-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Fog_at_Druids_Head_Farm_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1622664.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the fog remembers<br \/>\npromises once watered<br \/>\nby cascades of dew<br \/>\neach speck of mist<br \/>\na prism into the past<\/p>\n<p>when these men and women<br \/>\nlived and breathed<br \/>\nwalking this valley soil<br \/>\nwith trowel and shovel<br \/>\ndigging deep<\/p>\n<p>to bury the seeds of dreams<br \/>\nfirst nurtured in<br \/>\nArmenia, Japan, Arkansas<br \/>\nItaly or Oklahoma<br \/>\nnow they return<\/p>\n<p>during this first fog<br \/>\nof the year<br \/>\nCalifornia&#8217;s heartland smothered<br \/>\nbeneath a cotton-thick mist<br \/>\nthe cold means nothing<\/p>\n<p>when that thick mud<br \/>\nsquishes between bared toes<br \/>\nhardened by a long walk<br \/>\nalong Route 66;<br \/>\nwith water comes growth<\/p>\n<p>even after death<br \/>\nthose seeds still grow in<br \/>\nthis dirt, this promised land<br \/>\nthat blessed kiss of moisture<br \/>\nthe musk of earth heavy in air<\/p>\n<p>the joy of grit<br \/>\nbetween each finger, the smile<br \/>\nat spying a first seedling;<br \/>\none blessed night to return home<br \/>\nthe fog remembers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; the fog remembers promises once watered by cascades of dew each speck of mist a prism into the past when these men and women lived and breathed walking this valley soil with trowel and shovel digging deep to bury the seeds of dreams first nurtured in Armenia, Japan, Arkansas Italy or Oklahoma now they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}