{"id":1789,"date":"2013-06-21T03:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:41:44","slug":"sausalito-by-thomas-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/sausalito-by-thomas-boyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sausalito by Thomas Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/leaving.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1790 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/leaving.jpg\" alt=\"leaving\" width=\"662\" height=\"365\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/leaving.jpg 1575w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/leaving-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/leaving-1024x564.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 662px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 662\/365;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sausalito<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Thomas Boyd<\/p>\n<p>The talk this morning is about the weather<br \/>\nAnd the eyes of dogs in the sun on the deck in California<br \/>\nThere were dreams<br \/>\nAbout being left behind<br \/>\nAnd about being powerless<br \/>\nBut those dreams are gone now in the sun<\/p>\n<p>The low steady hum of traffic up the hill<br \/>\nComing and going through the rainbow tunnel<br \/>\nThe highway to the redwoods and farther north<br \/>\nThe highway that connects the rest of the world<br \/>\nTo the big red bridge<\/p>\n<p>The house is dry wood and when the wind comes up<br \/>\nThere are creaks and pops and other complaints<br \/>\nThat are natural in a house turning fifty<br \/>\nAnd a house that has been drenched, blown dry<br \/>\nAnd baked a hundred times<\/p>\n<p>The green hill below the deck almost, but not quite<br \/>\nHides another dozen houses<br \/>\nAnd most of them are just as dry and tired<br \/>\nBut the sound of cutting and hammering<br \/>\nPromises a second chance<br \/>\nBut not this house because the man<br \/>\nDied a few years ago and the woman<br \/>\nIs a poet<br \/>\nAnd those days are gone now<br \/>\nIn the sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talk this morning is about the weather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-about-poetry","category-summer-contest-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}