{"id":495,"date":"2011-04-27T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T21:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=495"},"modified":"2011-04-27T22:10:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:10:12","slug":"other-beautiful-things-by-laura-rodley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2011\/04\/other-beautiful-things-by-laura-rodley\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Beautiful Things by Laura Rodley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><strong>Other Beautiful Things<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>the mist green color of melting snow<br \/>\nthe bronze yellow of hay overdone<br \/>\nthe inside pink of a primrose<br \/>\nthe white heart of a morning glory<br \/>\nthe light that beams within<br \/>\nthe caramel color of my dog\u2019s eyes<br \/>\nas the morning light shines through them<br \/>\nthe almost amber color of strong tea<br \/>\nor malt whiskey<br \/>\nthe abalone shine inside a shell<br \/>\nthe amber light on the trees<br \/>\ntwo evenings ago, first evening<br \/>\nof daylight savings time,<br \/>\nthough it never saved you,<br \/>\nbut maybe all these colors<br \/>\nwill; meanwhile, I\u2019ll hold<br \/>\nonto them for you<br \/>\nso neither of us will forget.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 \u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"> Laura Rodley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Laura Rodley is a freelance journalist and photographer. \u00a0She has two chapbooks, <em>Rappelling Blue Light <\/em>(which was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award) and <em>Your Left Front Wheel is Coming Loose <\/em>(which was nominated for Pen New England L. L. Winshop Award and a Massachusetts Book Award); both are from Finishing Line Press. Her<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;\"> <\/span>work also has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of Net. \u00a0I first read Laura\u2019s poems \u201cBearings\u201d in <em>Kiss Me Goodnight<\/em>, and I have been a fan ever since. She writes that she loves all wildlife and the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other Beautiful Things the mist green color of melting snow the bronze yellow of hay overdone the inside pink of a primrose the white heart of a morning glory the light that beams within the caramel color of my dog\u2019s eyes as the morning light shines through them the almost amber color of strong tea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,127,12,209,205,210,206,13,211,7,16,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-a-slice-of-solace","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-contributors-2","9":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","10":"tag-finishing-line-press","11":"tag-laura-rodley","12":"tag-massachusetts-book-award","13":"tag-other-beautiful-things","14":"tag-poetry","15":"tag-rappelling-blue-light","16":"tag-solace","17":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","18":"tag-your-left-front-wheel-is-coming-loose","19":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}