{"id":624,"date":"2008-12-14T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=624"},"modified":"2008-12-14T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T23:38:00","slug":"iced-cabbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Iced Cabbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to write this as a response to a response to a post, but decided to make it a post of its own instead.<\/p>\n<p>Long before I eventually moved to Portland, I visited frequently to see friends and my girlfriend&#8217;s family. I was in town in February of 1997 when a really big ice storm. We were staying with my girlfriend&#8217;s dad and step-mother when we lost power and were iced in for three days. We huddled next to the fireplace and listened to the quiet stillness punctuated occasionally by the rifle-shot crack of limbs snapping off trees from all the excess ice weight.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere during that storm I took a picture of an ornamental cabbage MJ had that was coated in a perfect layer of ice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/842y6M_u5BtlulIxnvM8IA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_4WfajfRCVok\/SUW0qOA2n4I\/AAAAAAAABlI\/P0oTy-pGv-Q\/s400\/cabbage%20-%20a.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MJ is long departed, dead from cancer just over two years now. Which still seems impossible, somehow.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw ornamental cabbages for sale at a local market this fall, I instantly thought of MJ and bought several. And this morning, I snapped the modern, much-less-dramatic version of that original photo, of my own purple cabbage dusted with snow.<\/p>\n<p>I love you, MJ, and miss you bunches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to write this as a response to a response to a post, but decided to make it a post of its own instead. Long before I eventually moved&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=624\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/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":[22,35,43,45,56,65],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-memories","tag-pdx","tag-photos","tag-snow","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}