{"id":314,"date":"2006-02-10T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2006-02-10T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:07:00","slug":"alone-and-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/02\/10\/alone-and-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone and listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing<br \/>\nthese days<br \/>\nafter I get home:<br \/>\na cup of tea<br \/>\n(mint please).<\/p>\n<p>I set the cup near the plants<br \/>\nto watch the steam caress their leaves.<br \/>\nI think they find it erotic.<\/p>\n<p>I watch the sky redden,<br \/>\nthen darken<br \/>\nagainst the sloping horizon,<br \/>\nand the city becomes<br \/>\na sea of flickering lights<br \/>\ndancing outside my window.<\/p>\n<p>By now I&#8217;ve moved on from tea;<br \/>\nsomething with a kick,<br \/>\nand while Miles takes five<br \/>\nI close my eyes and lean back.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes,<br \/>\nalone and listening,<br \/>\nstaring out into the black<br \/>\nand the ground littered with stars;<br \/>\nsometimes every night is perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing these days after I get home: a cup of tea (mint please). I set the cup near the plants to watch the steam caress their leaves. I think they find it erotic. I watch the sky redden, then darken against the sloping horizon, and the city becomes a sea of flickering lights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}