{"id":8456,"date":"2015-08-06T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2015-08-06T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:55:13","slug":"one-of-my-least-favorite-things-about-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2015\/08\/one-of-my-least-favorite-things-about-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my least favorite things about summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have tinnitus? Well, I do. Maybe that&#8217;s why these buggers bug me so. We get the 17-year cicadas in droves around here, and in off years, like this summer, we still get enough to be annoying. Here&#8217;s hoping the noises in your head are more pleasant<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cicada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>song drills into<br \/>\nmy skull, the noise unwinds<br \/>\na hot thread&#8211;<br \/>\nalong these nerves.<br \/>\nHarsh, grating<br \/>\njackhammer drone<br \/>\nnever fades.<br \/>\nLike trepanation<br \/>\nit\u2019s pressure incessant<br \/>\nthat bores into my brain<br \/>\nto riddle<br \/>\nconcentration.<\/p>\n<p>All VERB<br \/>\nand REVERB.<\/p>\n<p>Though dark descends,<br \/>\nsilence is rewired;<br \/>\nbuzz doesn\u2019t end<br \/>\nbut phantoms<br \/>\naway, recedes<br \/>\nlike echoes.<br \/>\nYour whine\u2019s<br \/>\nan auger that emptied<br \/>\nmy head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2003<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8457\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cicada-shell-\u00a9-Ellen-Wade-Beals-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8457\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cicada-shell-\u00a9-Ellen-Wade-Beals-2015-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada shell \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2015\" width=\"365\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cicada-shell-\u00a9-Ellen-Wade-Beals-2015-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cicada-shell-\u00a9-Ellen-Wade-Beals-2015-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cicada shell \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have tinnitus? Well, I do. Maybe that&#8217;s why these buggers bug me so. We get the 17-year cicadas in droves around here, and in off years, like this summer, we still get enough to be annoying. Here&#8217;s hoping the noises in your head are more pleasant. Cicada song drills into my skull, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[2657,2656,12,39,13,7,16,1282,2642,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-8456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-bugs","8":"tag-cicadas","9":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","10":"tag-photography","11":"tag-poetry","12":"tag-solace","13":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","14":"tag-summer","15":"tag-summertime","16":"tag-weighed-words","17":"entry","18":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","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=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8461,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions\/8461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}