{"id":673,"date":"2008-03-22T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T16:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/things-ill-miss\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T16:53:55","slug":"things-ill-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2008\/03\/22\/things-ill-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I\u2019ll Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ahniwa\/451221999\/\"><img src='https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/uploads\/montrealatnight.jpg' alt='montreal at night' title=\"montreal at night\" class='nowrap' \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>City lights glowing through the blizzard;<br \/>\nthe air infused with falling faerie<br \/>\ndancing gently down to rest in piles<br \/>\namong their silent brethren.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes through the blizzard,<br \/>\nor through the sunny cold,<br \/>\nor the tepid spring;<br \/>\nthat walk to class down<br \/>\ncharming city streets.<\/p>\n<p>The closeness of the east,<br \/>\none city piled atop another;<br \/>\nthis family of cities<br \/>\nthat I never took the time to see.<\/p>\n<p>Energy.  Frenetic energy built<br \/>\naround community; the<br \/>\nwe-are-all-in-this-together-ness<br \/>\nthat made each word bearable.<br \/>\nThe thrill of the hunt,<br \/>\nbringing down that big assignment so<br \/>\nwe could feast during winter.<\/p>\n<p>And more, perhaps.  Perhaps more<br \/>\nthan I can say.  But<br \/>\nI <em>can <\/em>say,<br \/>\nOh, things,<\/p>\n<p>how I long to miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City lights glowing through the blizzard; the air infused with falling faerie dancing gently down to rest in piles among their silent brethren. Twenty minutes through the blizzard, or through the sunny cold, or the tepid spring; that walk to class down charming city streets. The closeness of the east, one city piled atop another; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,20],"tags":[51,58,80,109,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}