{"id":9527,"date":"2015-07-16T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=9527"},"modified":"2015-07-16T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:52:20","slug":"in-between-and-hold-you-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/in-between-and-hold-you-dear\/","title":{"rendered":"In Between and Hold You Dear"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9529\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hold-you-dear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hold-you-dear-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit: Rachel Shannon\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hold-you-dear-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hold-you-dear-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hold-you-dear.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Rachel Shannon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>In Between<\/h3>\n<p>This is the doorway time,<br \/>\nthe passage from youth<br \/>\nto adulthood<\/p>\n<p>Where we use words<br \/>\nwe almost understand<br \/>\nand display emotions<br \/>\nwe don&#8217;t quite yet know<\/p>\n<p>A swift movement is made<br \/>\nfrom one room to the next;<br \/>\nthe mover feels inexorable<br \/>\nbut we watch the transition<br \/>\nfly by our faces like a gust of sweet-smelling air.<\/p>\n<h3>Hold You Dear<\/h3>\n<p>I collect in my mind<br \/>\nthe country concert<br \/>\nwhere we shouted<br \/>\nand danced<\/p>\n<p>riverside avocado<br \/>\nand chicken lunches<\/p>\n<p>travel to the larger<br \/>\nwaters of the coast<\/p>\n<p>hosting and holding<br \/>\nand living together.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. \u00a0His writing has appeared in a number of journal publications, including Eye On Life Magazine, The Commonline Journal, and The Literary Yard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the doorway time,<\/p>\n<p>the passage from youth<\/p>\n<p>to adulthood<\/p>\n<p>Where we use words<\/p>\n<p>we almost understand<\/p>\n<p>and display emotions<\/p>\n<p>we don&#8217;t quite yet know&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/in-between-and-hold-you-dear\/\"\u200e>READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":9528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,218,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9531,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions\/9531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}