{"id":10401,"date":"2021-04-26T09:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:37:44","slug":"the-sound-of-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-sound-of-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Su Shafer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sound of wind is cold &#8211; gray waves, frigid and broken,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>rushing up a Northern shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a hollow sound, like a flute without music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An echo undying. Emptiness longing to be filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mournful wail unanswered. The despairing lamentation&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of invisible hands searching, sweeping ahead blindly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dry leaves scuttle sideways like old crabs on stick legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They rattle their empty claws at its passing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>then lay still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Su Shafer<\/strong> is a creative writer and sometime poet who lives in the Pacific Northwest, where flannel shirts are acceptable as formal wear and strong coffee is a way of life. There, in a small Baba Yaga house perched near the entrance to The Hidden Forest, odd characters are brewing with the morning cup, and a strange new world is beginning to take shape . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Su Shafer The sound of wind is cold &#8211; gray waves, frigid and broken,&nbsp; rushing up a Northern shore. It\u2019s a hollow sound, like a flute without music. An echo undying. Emptiness longing to be filled. A mournful wail unanswered. The despairing lamentation&nbsp; of invisible hands searching, sweeping ahead blindly. Dry leaves scuttle sideways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1474],"tags":[1543,1190],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sparks","tag-su-shafer","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2HL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10402,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}