{"id":9167,"date":"2025-07-06T13:53:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:34:03","slug":"catch-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2025\/07\/06\/catch-release\/","title":{"rendered":"catch-release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bodies strewn miles. Blame the same. You can find my bones at the bottom of the river. Pick your teeth with the bones beneath the rubble. Big Beautiful Bonefires, burn it all down. Bottom out the bottom line.<br><br>This creek wasn\u2019t here last week, won\u2019t be here the next. It doesn\u2019t even have a name. When waters well, make your own damn passage.<br><br>Wish I could do that. Not hold back. Gush till the earth gives in and swallows me.<br><br>Instead I bring my son to catch-release minnows, pick up garbage, spot cardinals, eat grapes, drape the Spanish moss like feather boas, and find fossils in the unforgiving limestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250706_151318018-675x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Boy bends to the creek.\" class=\"wp-image-9168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250706_151318018-675x1200.jpg 675w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250706_151318018-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250706_151318018-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250706_151318018-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250706_151318018-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">That\u2019s it.<br>That\u2019s everything.<br>Living and dying and parenting.<br>Grieve<br>and keep going.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wish I could do that. Not hold back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-deepsicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","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=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9173,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions\/9173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}