{"id":206,"date":"2025-04-29T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2025-04-29T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:46:42","slug":"napowrimo-2025-day-29-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/napowrimo-2025-day-29-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 29: In a Nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In a Nutshell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each thing can be itself only<br>itself only insofar<br>as it is so far something else.<br>To be itself nothing<br>nothing can be itself by itself<br>or the black-eyed junco.<br>I&#8217;ve had a black eye.<br>That was delight to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lonely ghost of self inhabits<br>the self-haunted self.<br>My dad&#8217;s ashes sit on the shelf.<br>Rhubarb leaves and walnut twigs,<br>those cigarettes will kill ya.<br>Each smoke adventures the self-same garb.<br>Habit inhibits the self-haunted self.<br>In each city where some bell knells<br>are yellow fingers.<br>The goldfinch remembers when there was a feeder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each thing can only be yourself<br>only self insonear<br>as it&#8217;s<br>coffee grounds on a compost heap.<br>My mother doesn&#8217;t rest where she lies<br>where she lies true to herself to nothing.<br>Electric stove coils glow the same<br>but gas burners are easy to figure.<br>The mirror&#8217;s adjusted just a hair<br>to make believe I&#8217;m all myself.<br>Nothing&#8217;s the mirror of all the selves<br>and a common (choose one) grackle.<br>Right now I&#8217;m eating some cheddar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Basil Cartryte<\/em><br><em>2025-04-29<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 29)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 29: &#8220;In a Nutshell&#8221; by Basil Cartryte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[11,12,10],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-napowrimo-2025","category-poetry","tag-napowrimo","tag-napowrimo-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}