{"id":499,"date":"2024-03-24T21:55:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T18:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/?p=499"},"modified":"2024-03-24T21:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T18:55:38","slug":"nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>We do not grow the basis of our wealth by faith alone.\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We enter what's inside, hoping there to find\r\ndays like cairns in ordered rows that somehow,\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0out of grace, mark a path towards a lifted curse\r\nbut the rot of either-or will find the core:\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0once, a boy, your flailing arms flung into a giggle,\r\nyou mined the branches of an apple tree\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0your father's house looked down upon,\r\nand the sun \u2014 the hard, taut push of it \u2014\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0where you stood, it touched your hand:\r\nand the moment \u2014 the sweet, strong juice of it,\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0when you at last bit down \u2014 smelled bad.\r\nFor all the happy accidents, the climate of our youth\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0isn\u2019t home; even the hardest of memory\u2019s iron,\r\nthe treasures of its dank and teeming groves,\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the fields full of blooming, mating grain\r\nand happiness, ripe to stifle the sighs of years\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0long hence: all will rust like a man who,\r\nhot with effort, worn by a day's hard traveling\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0scans dark woods. Flares of houses hide among\r\nthe hills. The wanderer takes off his heavy coat\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and feels the wind\u2019s knife lightly touch his throat.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not grow the basis of our wealth by faith alone. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We enter what&#8217;s inside, hoping there to find days like cairns in ordered rows that somehow, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0out of grace, mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/nostalgia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teemumanninen.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}