{"id":3000,"date":"2013-12-30T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2022-06-12T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:35:17","slug":"decembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2013\/12\/30\/decembering\/","title":{"rendered":"decembering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Into a false winter where the sun still feels a balmy 69 then sets when it damn please. 5:40, thirty, before I&#8217;m off work and the grackles judge from the moontower anchor wires and it&#8217;s too dark to take the dogs outside. They don&#8217;t scrimp on the welcome home attack, puppy tongues a cross of dead fish breath yard poop and pure love digging their missing me into me, snug into the curves I make with my legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Got some holiday shenanigans in,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/123013\/gingerdeadmen.jpg\" alt=\"Skeleton gingerbread cookies.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">though decorating felt odd with all the green,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/123013\/ornaments_in_trees.jpg\" alt=\"Ornaments hanging from our trees in the front yard.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christmas improbable without proper socks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/123013\/christmas_stockings_in_the_Mudcat_Kingdom.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas socks for me, Arthur, Robin and Mudcat.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and impossible without family. So the human parts of our pack took airplanes to see North Dakota, eat cheese logs and chippers and stand on frozen lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_161417-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_161417-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_161417-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_161417-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_161417-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_162431-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_162431-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_162431-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_162431-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131226_162431.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arthur was a good sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/123013\/ice_fishing_arthur_2013.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur ice fishing in a plywood ice house.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was so glad to go home, then so glad to come home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into a false winter where the sun still feels a balmy 69 then sets when it damn please. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-holledays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8252,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/8252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}