{"id":1044,"date":"2013-07-05T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2013-07-05T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:20:48","slug":"meadow-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Meadow Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is in the fooling-around sub-section, but it\u2019s also myth-making, or giving a poetic spin on nature. We have two big ol\u2019 trees who thrust their limbs in a gesture of \u201cyou go, kid\u201d over the meadow. Those who project evil in the world will see these as going \u201cboo\u201d like Halloween monsters putting up their clutchy hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/booyourself.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"booyourself\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"booyourself\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/booyourself_thumb.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p> But I like these two guys. Trees, they are. They were more impressive in Winter, but here at the apex of Summer they both have little bunches of leaves at the end of their \u201cfingers\u201d&#8212;it confuses the gesture, or maybe extends it, showing that amid the dead death of dying, what\u2019s that little bouquet of life doing there? There\u2019s still some life in the ol\u2019 gal yet, as Mehitabel, the spunky cat says (in the humor poetry of the Archy and Mehitabel series by xxx.) (I thoroughly enjoyed these philosophical poems in my teen years, so this goes also under the category of favorite things.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-7-1tree2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"13-7-1tree2\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"13-7-1tree2\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-7-1tree2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"472\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This above is on the left side back of the meadow: the mommy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-7-1tree3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"13-7-1tree3\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"13-7-1tree3\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-7-1tree3_thumb.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This on the right is the daddy.&#160; I just make this stuff up. You know how kids assign gender and family roles to rocks and whatever. They guard a lovely meadow in our back yard where we see bunnies and deer and many birds and butterflies and various waves of wild flowers. Contemplating our whole meadow is a trip.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it doesn\u2019t do anything. It just sits there. It changes, imperceptibly. And it waves in the breeze. And whatever they sang about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s\" target=\"_blank\">ol\u2019 man River in \u201cShowboat<\/a>\u201d&#8212;a musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II on Broadway in 1927&#8212;may be true also with ol\u2019 lady Meadow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is in the fooling-around sub-section, but it\u2019s also myth-making, or giving a poetic spin on nature. We have two big ol\u2019 trees who thrust their limbs in a gesture of \u201cyou go, kid\u201d over the meadow. Those who project evil in the world will see these as going \u201cboo\u201d like Halloween monsters putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-foolin","category-favoritethings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}