{"id":145561336,"date":"2024-06-12T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=145561336"},"modified":"2024-06-12T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:02:55","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-autumn-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=145561336","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Autumn Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A poem of recalling during summer.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/81d33d46-e3d9-42a1-a791-48edb85b791b_3992x5976.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of orange and brown autumn leaves swirling in the air. The out of focus background is a wooded area on a sunny day.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@mr_kuchen_?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Oliver Hihn<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/micro-photography-of-leaves-Fd3NFkSLkzs?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Autumn Time<\/h3><p>With cicada calls and the sun\u2019s heat,<\/p><p>I yearn for other times<\/p><p>a chill in the air and in the bones<\/p><p>Colors so rich as they serve as a canopy<\/p><p>Walking side by side, door to door<\/p><p>with a plastic jack-o-lantern in hand<\/p><p>The favorite time of year, when the<\/p><p>ghosts of now go guising as they are missed<\/p><p>A butterfly,<\/p><p>A dragon,<\/p><p>What else might you be?<\/p><p>You\u2019ve left hints here and there,<\/p><p>memories of encouragement,<\/p><p>to keep me company \u2018til<\/p><p>autumn time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem of recalling during summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145561336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145561336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145561336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145561336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145561336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145561336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145561336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}