{"id":3442,"date":"2024-02-16T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2024-02-16T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:19:16","slug":"slow-down-small-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/slow-down-small-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Down, Small Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1446\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-1446x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-1446x1080.jpg 1446w, https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-1536x1147.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-2048x1529.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-1240x926.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Kathleen-Hudspeth-2023-508x379.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1446px) 100vw, 1446px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Slow Down, Small Craft&#8221;, Kathleen Hudspeth, 2023.  Oil and graphite on paper, 12&#8243; x 16&#8243;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am trying to say<br><em>Calm water expanding before you like glass, like magic<\/em><br>Live slowly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am trying to say<br><em>Trapezing out over the wind-roughened waves, spray-drenched<\/em><br>Life is exhilarating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am trying to say<br><em>Sea-battered and struggling to exit the tide-hidden grotto, uncertain<\/em><br>Love is risk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am trying to say<br><em>Flowers falling into the bay, swirling with gratitude<\/em><br>I love, I love, I love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been a long journey, and it continues.<br>Slow down, small craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to sayCalm water expanding before you like glass, like magicLive slowly I am trying to sayTrapezing out over the wind-roughened waves, spray-drenchedLife is exhilarating I am trying to saySea-battered and struggling to exit the tide-hidden grotto, uncertainLove is risk I am trying to sayFlowers falling into the bay, swirling with gratitudeI love, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[244,226,245],"tags":[162,17,19],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-painting","category-poetry","tag-landscape","tag-painting","tag-works-on-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Slow-Down-Small-Craft-Detail.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gX8t-Tw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}